nyan

Security and convenience (not "speed") always pull in opposite directions. The thing is that experts always seem to advise using the highest level of security even for trivial accounts. This creates unnecessary friction, with the result that the average person drops the effective level of security even for important accounts in order to get rid of it. This is not a new problem, just a bad article on an old problem.

(As for cryptocurrency, just don't.)

Historically, there have been cases where a single large steam-heat or hot water system served multiple buildings on a corporate or university campus, or even several ciy blocks (I think that was in New York). No reason you couldn't do the same with a heat pump.

I'm a computer programmer by profession. I spend 12+ hours a day, every day, staring at screens. The second-last thing I want to do in my off hours is arm wrestle bad user interfaces (especially if I have to do it while also wrangling cats). If I'm not being paid to deal with a device, it can do things my way or get sent back to the manufacturer. So there. 😜

I admit, I cheat a bit—if I can fill in a stitch I missed with one of the colours I'm working now rather than the intended one, and still have the result make visual sense, I go right ahead and do that. Just not enough of a perfectionist, I guess. 😅

It's more a matter of being used to the paper pattern. That, and the fact that if I drop it while wrestling my thread-eating cat out of the way, it's unlikely to break, eheheh.

(I could also ramble on for a while about Why I Would Feel It Necessary to Build My Own Tablet, but it isn't germane here. Suffice to say that I'm unlikely to find a consumer-level device that operates in a way that I'm willing to put up with.)

I'm the analog weirdo who's currently about halfway through this kit using a printed paper pattern that I don't even bother to mark off (and yes, I do occasionally miss a few stitches in a given colour and have to load up a spare needle to fix it). Since I don't carry a phone or tablet, and I do most of my stitching on a different floor of the house from my computer, my setup just isn't app-friendly.

(I'm also a Linux user, which restricts the set of commodity software available to me.)

Anyone who is actually surprised by this has not been paying attention.

Another good reason to stay away from the US in general and Georgia in particular.

The people who should be working on the appointments have other responsibilities that they consider more urgent? Obsolete or otherwise problematic requirements make it difficult to find suitable candidates? Candidates who are suitable refuse the positions when offered?

(More than likely it's just the usual combination of outright screwups with childish bureacratic infighting, though.)

Rolling release distros don't do this. Gentoo isn't versioned. I'd guess that Arch isn't either. Not that you're the first person to look at an issue that exists only with some distros and assume it extends to all of Linux (and I doubt you'll be the last).

There are plenty of them still around—much of the Boomer generation was in elementary school before widespread administration of MMR and polio vaccines, or at least knew people a few years older who were. Thing is, they're not the ones making the decisions about whether to vaccinate youngsters these days. Their own kids—GenX like me (and I suspect you as well), and some early Millenials—all got the vaccines.

There are two different RDP implementations in Linux: freerdp (which is the underlying library for remmina as well) and rdesktop. Each has its own set of bugs. No idea if rdesktop offers better support for what you want to do—I use it, but I only have single-monitor setups at both ends. (It has an annoying bug that can make it require multiple attempts to establish a connection, though.)