Which is fine. I alternate between carbonated and still. AFAIK it has the same benefits, but with the additional joy of gaseous bloating 😀👍
There are usb gpio devices which can fulfill the connectivity bit. Pretty sure you are sol with the 5w though 😊
Fair enough, it lowers the risk. Are you doing key stretching? Ie. X rounds of pbkdf or whatever it's called?
Slackware was the shit in the 90's. I bounced around slack, Debian, and a bunch of other floppy based distros. My first install was onto my Amiga, before I got a new pc. Good times