"Touch typing" can mean different things.

The typing schools teach that there are supposed to be diagonal columns of keys on the keyboard, and that you should use only one finger per column (... except for each index finger and each pinkie having two columns each).

But the typewriter keyboard was never designed with any columns in mind. The keys were mounted on mechanical levers and the layout was simply a consequence of getting the levers equally spaced.
If you'd force yourself to use the school method, your left wrist would have to be kept in an unnatural angle for a long time, which could cause strain injuries later on.
That is why some "ergonomic" keyboards -- made for school-"touch typists" -- have the keys in actual columns.

For the rest of us, who just learn to "type without looking", we learn other habits, and develop other muscle memory.
If you use computers much, I think that you should definitely learn to do that.
Then the regular typewriter layout is ergonomic enough.

That said, I've worked with people who were very good programmers but slow typists. Programming is mostly about thinking, not typing.

Except ... Please don't pull over into the bike lane while you're doing it, like some idiot did in front of me yesterday.

That's good, but I find that my prints have too many print lines and other imperfections. I prefer to fill and sand and then paint them, first with a layer of primer and then with spray paint.

It would be nice if there was spray paint available in Platinum beige, or just anything that is remotely close. I have tried many brands throughout the years trying to mimic the vintage look but not really been lucky: it has either been too white or too saturated.
The closest I've found to any vintage beige was a beige primer. My keyboard is in dire need of a touch-up.

What I've seen in these past weeks is that electronic brands have raised their prices worldwide because of the US tariffs, not just in the US.
So, in effect, the rest of the world is subsidising the brands' US customers.

I suppose this means that the brands think that these tariffs are only going to be temporary. And while they are in effect, they would do what they can so as to not lose their US customers to competitors -- competitors doing the same thing.

What is Nikon actually doing now? I would like to know.
As a European, I think it would be refreshing to see a brand not raise their prices worldwide, but only in the US.
Let the US customers see how much the tariffs actually are.

You got it wrong. RISC-V is a modern, compact ISA. Even without the C extension (which every major chip implements) comparisons have shown that its code is just as compact and inherently capable of high performance as ARM or x86-64.
RISC-V is not open source but an open standard. There do exist core designs that are open source because the ISA is open, but most processors out there, including those from SiFive are proprietary. They are just not controlled by a single entity who dictates what cores you can and can not build, such as is the case with ARM.

The technological know-how to create fast RISC-V chips is out there at half a dozen companies, if not twice as many. Many of them are available to license.
The problem is getting the momentum to get the investment to hire a good fab to get the chips made -- and then bought by consumers.
And you can't get that momentum overnight. There is inertia to overcome.

Qualcomm, for instance, is very involved in the development of the RISC-V standard and it is believed that they have cores in their lab that would rival their cores running ARM, only that they have no incentive to develop them for the market right now.
Other companies, such as MIPS (yes, MIPS) are selling their processor cores first to niche markets, such as automotive.

Yes, it will

Oh, you are mistaken. The concept of "welfare" is not about giving alms to the poor as an incentive to keep them from working (a too common misconception).
Welfare is about providing equal opportunity to everyone, giving everyone the opportunity to grow, to innovate and become entrepreneurs.

For one thing, it is about allowing anyone to get a college education, even if your parents aren't rich.
There are downsides to this, too, of course. Nothing is perfect.
One is that most jobs now require an education, with high competition for the low-paying unskilled jobs that remain.

I have myself worked at several startups, with innovating technology.
In my home town: Stockholm - the capital of the most "welfare state" there has been - I have seen numerous companies emerge ... to be acquired by larger international corporations.
Many international corporations have development centres here, either from buying up existing firms or by establishing them themselves.

Another example: A childhood friend has been able to become a hot-shot music producer for international and American artists. I saw how he started his journey as a musician by going o classes when he was a kid -- classes subsidised by the welfare state.

EVs are commonplace here in Sweden and in our neighbour Norway, Many of these are Teslas. You can see them everywhere.

We get proper winters. We get snow .. that thaws .. and then freezes into ice, over and over. We also get under-chilled rain that create invisible ice on the roads. etc. Change between summer and winter tyres are practically mandatory twice a year.

Studded winter tyres throw up a not insignificant amount of particulate matter: and therefore studded tyres banned from many inner-city streets for the sake of air quality.
Heavier cars are worse at this. Electric cars are heavier, because of the large battery.

Heavier cars also don't handle as well as lighter cars. That's simple physics: larger mass -> more inertia.

Klarna is on a whole other level than the regular, old-fashioned "Buy now, pay later".

The answer is in the second paragraph of the summary.
It is two-factor authentication for when doing things over the Internet that requires a high level of security.

We've got the model with commercial entities over here in Sweden, and it blows. The market-leader (I don't want to call it "popular") is used for online banking. It wasn't really two-factor authentication in the true sense of the word, and has therefore not been impervious to scams in which people have lost their savings -- after which the banks had put the blame on the users for the system's shortcomings.
We were supposed to also have got a state-run e-ID system with higher security, but that has been delayed for years and years.

Microsoft, Meta, Palantir ... Not really companies I'd like to come near my children (if I had any).
Blue Origin? .. eh, not relevant perhaps except when you're reminded that it is owned by the same guy as is behind Amazon. Ditto.

They couldn't make adults use "AI". So they're trying to force it upon the next generation. That's despicable beyond belief.

Where do I sign the counter-list to protest against this?

When a person becomes US president, isn't he supposed to put his business dealings under a blind trust so as to to avoid any conflict of interests?

Clinton and GWB did. Carter put his peanut farm into one.

Why is this not law?

Every two years, the Siena College Research does a poll of historians, political scientists, think tanks, etc. and come up with a ranking of USA's best president.

Donald Trump was already ranked #3 from the bottom, based on his previous term. Only beat by James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, two drunks who mismanaged the country into civil war and the aftermath respectively.

I'm not sure that would work. Larger trees absorb more CO2 than smaller trees.

Also, be careful about taking too much at once. Soil can release carbon if left bare.

Oreos are owned by Mondelez, and there are a lot of people (at least in Europe) who are boycotting its brands now because of how they are still active doing business in Russia.