Make shit up. No joke. Only way to survive this shit is to have fun with it and make up the most ludicrous bullshit. Or dont attend if its not required. Tell your coworkers the same. Or say you are busy as you have to actually work.
Carriers lock their bootloaders, regardless of phone. So make sure 100% on a test phone for the carrier, like at one of their stores, that you can unlock thr bootloader before assuming.
If you dont care about permissions, use NFS. If you need protected shares, use SMBv3, force blocking of SMBv1 protocol.
I have a mix of both NFS and SMBv3 shares between NAS, Windows 11, Ubuntu, and MacOS machines. It can be done, not too difficult unless you are trying to mount things weird in proxmox or something.
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