That doesn’t make a ton of sense for the internet thing but shelving that for now it sounds like you somehow let out the magic smoke.
Several questions, are you combat deployed or at one of our many bases in Asia or Europe where you could drop by an electronics shop?
I’m guessing it’s a no but is your laptop covered by a dell warranty, if so which kind?
Where these the factory power bricks or 3rd party?
Usb docking station and a monitor and keyboard and mouse. It’ll drop you into dex
Those are the POTs lines. So the real questions are do you have an elevator? Does your security system use a POTs line? Are you ever going to use fax machines?
Check the outlet and surge protector for working power. If those work you’re likely looking at internal damage to the tv
Use the install media for the new OS to format the drive
As long as you didn’t cancel the line or port it somewhere yes
You could replace it if you can find one
Have you tried a USB microphone
Is there a reason you aren’t using a real Hotspot? This seems needlessly complicated for an old man in the woods
That’s going to depend on signal strength and provided speeds
That’s quite a unique idea for remote work… uniquely bad.
So is the zero client trying to tie back through a vpn or did they virtualize into aws/azure/etc?
As much as it pains me the answer is iPads
Factory reset it
Yes if you pulled hard enough
Lol what did you download from what sketchy place?
Drive is in the process of failing. Hope you have any data you’d like to keep backed up
Sounds like you may have cooked it.
My money is on the permissions set in AD for your users and groups are blocking some people and not others based on their membership