there's a larger moral gray area when using an ad-blocker
Wait . . . we're talking about Meta here, the parasites of the Internet who can and do monetize their own mothers' data for a few nickels, right? Moral gray area, seriously? Yeah, I can't say that's gonna keep me up at night. Fuck Meta and Zuck with a rusty rail spike. It's 100% upside for humanity if they crash and burn.
. . . AMD is busy working with companies like Supermicro at putting their top-of-the-line 7950X desktop / consumer-facing CPU on server motherboards with ECC RAM support and available 100G NICs to make killer workstations and high density nodes for "micro-clouds"." And they're cheap (relatively speaking)! Very interesting to see Intel and AMD conduct the exact opposite tactics.
Like the 5950X before it, the 7950X is a beast with a great combination of thread density and insane single-threaded performance. And low cost! It's really astounding how AMD has just brutalized Intel in the CPU market in an incredibly short amount of time (just over six years since the first Threadripper chip was launched).
That they had DNA like ours in and of itself would nearly disqualify them for being extraterrestrial.
Pish posh. Didn't you watch Prometheus?
But there are real risks associated with being physically around other people right now
What?!?? Citation urgently needed, because this is such a BS statement that the browser automatically rendered in brown text on my screen. Hint: not wanting to resume commuting to the office does not count as "real risks."
If your employer says come back to the office and you don't want to, you are free to get another job.
You are also free to start your own company where you get to set the remote work policy as well as how much the employees get paid.
Otherwise, shut up and do your job. It couldn't be more simple.
Pretty soon an education from certain states, like Iowa and Florida, will be disqualifying for getting into university or getting a job because those students will be too uneducated and/or too differently educated from everyone else -- unless all states dumb down their curricula to match.
Not sure what you mean by "pretty soon." Only 15% of high school students attending Baltimore City Public Schools in the city of Baltimore, MD tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and only 8% tested at or above that level for math. For many decades now, we've had regions statistically full of uneducated people, which happen to be 100% controlled by Democrats -- they're called inner cities. Make sure you disqualify every one of them while you're discarding FL and IA -- you know, for "equity."
Then lets say the screen saver triggers or hibernation gets triggered or the home machine goes to sleep.
Probably a good idea to disable these things if you plan on remoting into a machine or having it do work after hours. I have found that most "power saving," "eco," and "sleep" settings conspire against the system getting work done at its normal levels of throughput or even against its general availability.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison