AutumnSpark1226

Try booting from an usb (with a live linux image) stick and see if you can access your drive.

You might need to switch to a smaller instance.

Many ARM boards (including raspberry pis) are designed to run with linux. So the manufacturers can customize the kernel and firmware for the boards.

In theory, you could make a XMPP bot that can do all these things. Status information and executing simple commands shouldn't be that hard but interactive commands might need a custom wrapper.

A video on youtube...

I have tried a yubikey on ubuntu without any problems. Could you please describe what exactly isn't working

On a rooted device or with adb you can execute the command:

sleep 60m && reboot -p

If you want a kali-based live environment, you can follow this tutorial: https://www.kali.org/docs/development/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso/ You can configure a lot of options and most of the building process is just downloading packages.

I have found this app. Didn't test it but you might try it. https://github.com/maforn/TimedShutdownAndroid