Hah. I booted one of those NUCs from the AI-healthcare company with all the security problems (it wasn't connected to a network!) and it turns out they configured their system to fsck / on EVERY BOOT.
clearly they have a LOT of trust in... well, all kinds of things. power supply, system crashes, bad hard drives?
the fuckknobs turned off USB-keyboard support in the BIOS
which means when grub boots I can't select anything. and I can't get into the BIOS to fix it, because guess what? THE KEYBOARD DON'T WORK
or it might be getting confused by this keyboard being too "fancy". maybe it doesn't trigger the BIOS's USB-keyboard support
@foone
Can you usb->ps2->usb? Maybe more dongles will help?
@EndlessMason Tried it. no luck.
@foone
Seems like an under served market ...