Essentially I’m wanting to just start tinkering/breaking things as I feel like that’s a good way to learn. Everything from installing distros such as Ubuntu and eventually things like Arch, running VMs, web servers, torrenting etc.
I plan to do this on a couple of old thinkpads, raspberry pis etc
I was wondering if there’s any big fundamental rules for how to do all of this as safely as possible, and any good resources.
For instance, my broadband provider allows the creation of a guest network which I plan to use for this purpose.
I essentially want to know how to segregate all of the things I plan to do, so that my personal devices and the like are safe from any threats I could encou