unironically thinking of building a startup making "portable computers" specifically for IT jannies
>just buy a bunch of chinkpads
>design and 3d print a new sub-chassis to fit extra ports/cards (if even necessary), maybe some edgy "ruggedization" corner bits or rudimentary waterproofing
>add extra network card, gpio breakout board, extra audio card, an integrated SDR, all the various toys that come up once a decade at work but larpers love
>sell it preloaded with W10 LTSC and a few common utilities (wireshark with the BT/USB driver extensions, virtual audio cable, the actual latest PS version instead of the janky versions of 3 corpos use, etc)
>package it with some common display/audio/usb adapters and other junk you always need and can never remember where you put

>maybe have a Version B that's just an ITX computer in a pelican case with the ports exposed and rubber grommets on them for the tacticool larpers

what are the myriad ways this could fail

opening Powershell at work and feeling my soul escape my body (it is ascending higher to to battle on the astral plane with whatever boomer "DBA" designed our AD forest)

i got a phone screen to work at a defence contractor and am fully intending on lying about how many electronic devices i've built. but is it really "lying" that hard if i say i've done proper padhacking when really i just soldered lines to the test pads of a 360 controller and hit it with a multimeter to check continuity instead of carrying on soldering actual buttons in (to my credit, the solder joints were good; wiggling them to test strength, the test pad came off before my joints did)