Isn't 8000 bitcoin worth about $800 million, not $8 billion?

Out of approximately 200,000 car fires, only 52 were EVs. (https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/) I would call that rare. Yes, there are less EVs, but based on miles driven, EVs are 10 times less likely to catch fire.

And yes 140,000 Bolt vehicles were recalled because of risk of fire, but there were only 16 actually fires. The year before Hyundai recalled 430,000 gas car because of risk of fire.

I have a few PIs running:

Old PI 1B+ to turn on and off the irrigation system for our garden. Simple relays to control the water valves

PI 2B connected to an arduino to interface with house alarm system to read and store events. Also uses RF transmitter to control lights connected with wireless outlets

PI 3B running Kodi as media server connected to TV. Also has 8 digit 7-segment display to show time and temperature.

PI 3B+ running Kodi as media server for other TV, plus a 3.5" TFT display hat which show current weather, temperature and time.

I'm running kubuntu on my 4k 15" laptop. Most everything scales pretty well. Desktop/icons are fine, dialogs are good. You get the odd application that doesn't which can make some thing really tiny, but nothing I use regularily has a problem.

A secnod for Yubikeys. We love them. You can load your own key onto them so there is no worries when a third party (like RSA) gets hacked. There are open souce tools to configure them and run authentication servers. Integrated with PAM, and can be used with radius servers. And they are about $25 each, with no expiry date.

I guess it depends on what you want to achieve, but I find web based development has made it easier to do that fun kind of programming. I grab a framework (python/django currently) and I can have a fully working interactive application in 10 minutes or so. Spend a couple hours more, and I've got it polished with fancy javascript. No need to write entire client interfaces, client server protocols, etc.

So using rough numbers based on my taxes (in Canada, so yours should be lower), if you are earning $125K, you are taking home something like $7000 a month. Deducting your rent, you are left with $5500. Obviously I don't know how many loans you have, or how many parking tickets, but that's a fair bit of cash SF might have a high cost of living, but you really don't have much left at the end of the month?

Unless I missed something, Samba 4 is not in Alpha release anymore. It has gone through beta, and is now in release candidate stage. (rc4 currently) It is designed as a full Active Directory implementation (including DNS and LDAP)

I run quite a number of Debian systems, mostly squeeze, but a couple of older releases. None of the machines had any direct problems, however one machine that runs some java processes had the java processes using up 100% of the cpu. Another iscsi server process was filling up the logs with "failed to read from timerfd, Resource temporarily unavailable". And my desktop Debian machine had Google chrome using all the cpu.

The above fix: /etc/init.d/ntpd stop; date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date; fixed the problem in all cases.

I assume it forces setting of the time (to the current time) which resets something. I can confirm it worked for me. Java processes were pegged at 100%, restarting the processes didn't help, but after doing the above, and restarting the java, they were normal again.