Yes, I bought a rocketfish drive enclosure years back, so dropped a drive in that, and attached vias USB. Never had issues with it.
Assign as data drive in Openmediavault.
Openmediavault had some plugins and settings to set folders2ram so that the initial SDcard OS is writting to RAM instead of constant writes to the SDcard.




Taxes aren’t very high, what are you onabout? Mine have gone down over the years. Regulations keep people and the environment healthy, which saves people and the government money. You’ve been watching too much YouTube algorithm.
As for a recession proof job I don’t know if cars is it. When times are good people will spend money on car repair, when things are bad they will skip maintenance or DIY it, in order to pay rent or eat