I’m happy for them to be posted here and see them, just wanted to mention my experience with the requirements since I don’t have a fanatical account.

It’s not just ‘sign up for a newsletter’ - I just tried, and it’s also ‘register an account and link your steam account’. Maybe this is just how it works for Canadians though, but either way it’s a big enough turn off for me to not bother.

So ‘it’s already on port 8080’ makes sense, but as I mentioned, no remote computers on the same LAN can reach that port (they can ping the host with no issue), and that’s what I’m trying to resolve. I’m not using a reverse proxy.

Through further testing it looks like I’d missed adding the firewall rule to allow port 8080 TCP to the public zone; I currently have it added it to the ‘trusted’ zone which came from some online guides regarding rootlet podman but that didn’t resolve it. I’m sure I’d added it to the public zone previously as well to test with it not working so removed it, but it is now so I’ll have to keep testing a bit to ensure it’s repeatable.

Sounds like you need to familiarise yourself with PowerShell and Group Policy.

This article has nothing of value for any systems engineer unless they’re starting from scratch. Seems like low quality article to sell a product.

Vbox will create a bridge with my wifi card (I’m a laptop user with no option for a wired nic in the host).

I’ve never been able to get kvm to do that and haven’t found any working instructions online that a simpleton like me can follow

You can always try the ‘Contact’ form on the site, it’s not likely anyone here is going to be able to give you good advice

So what is your suggestion for a viable alternative that auditors will also accept?

I’m surprised that no one has commented on the Mastodon post’s author recommending people ‘use a privacy concious browser like Chrome’. What a way to invalidate her arguments

I don’t have a better answer for OP, but telling them to switch distros is also not answering their question at all.