These tools are for junior admins who need ease of use and give them full access so the company can hire cheaper users. Domain Admins already have many ways to monitor systems with existing tools. Experienced admins can already do a lot of the things that these tools do, just not in a GUI.

Paying for an experienced admin that knows command line scripting, has a larger recurring cost. Tools such as Solarwinds Orion has a cheaper recurring cost, so you can hire more junior admins for more "coverage".

I don't know where you're getting your facts, but you actually have that backwards. The blue states tend to pay more into the feds and get less back. It's the red states that are leeches.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-15/some-states-like-new-york-send-billions-more-to-federal-government-than-they-get-back

Here's a list.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700

Here's a top 10. https://www.moneyrates.com/research-center/federal-income-taxes-by-state.htm

Wikipedia shows the actual revenue collected from each state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state

Here's a list of the return per dollar paid.
https://smartasset.com/taxes/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2020

If the deep blue states actually got back what they put in, then they wouldn't be trying to make up for it so much at the state level. The people of red states that rail against the subsidies sure love getting their own subsidies, but complain when other people try to get back their own fair share.

Here is a list of the 100 best American films according to the AFI. Less than 5% of them are available to stream over Netflix, but over 95% are available through Netflix DVD. If you limit yourself to Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime streaming, you are watching the results of the best ROI for production investment for their shareholders, not the best art. I'd rather get a great story than a cost effective one, even if it means I have to put in two minutes of physical effort every 90 minutes.

You are confused between two products: "Netflix" which is their streaming service with about 6,000 titles, and "Netflix DVD" which has over 100,000 titles.

Consider understanding what someone has stated before you dive into personal attacks. It makes you look ignorant and petty.

Netflix DVD is the original version of the Netflix product. You get so many DVD/Blu-ray discs at a time, and drop them in the mail after you watch them. No lag/jitter problems and better audio/video quality across the board. It's not an option for people with phones and tablets only, but a much better experience if you have a TV with an HDMI input.

Every month I spend an hour or two looking for movie recommendations, and 10-15 minutes filling my queue. I rarely lose time scrolling through the endless, mostly bland choices on six different streaming services. I have seen more fantastic movies and television in the last six months than I have in the last five years of slogging through broken interfaces.

You've been a corporate apologist for years. Your tongue must be raw from all the boot licking. When are you going to stand up and demand some accountability?

If you only have a handful of TBs, you don't need RAID. RAID is stupid for home storage. There are 3 good reasons for RAID:
1. Speed
2. Uptime
3. Size

If you're having RAID for the sake of having RAID, you're doing it wrong. Having multiple disks actually increases the likelihood of failure of the system.

Let's say the failure rate is 10% for a single disk. For 2 disks, the chance of failure become 100% -(90%x90%) = 19%. That's nearly double the failure. For 3 disks it becomes 100%-(90%x90%x90%) or 27.1 It increase with each disk. If the failure rate is 0.01% or less, the math is easier to approximate and actually comes close to being a multiple of the number of disks. A RAID system with 10 disk has 10 times the failure rate. Yes you'll have the redundancy, so that you'll survive at least a single disk failure or 2, depending on your RAID level, but only if you know it failed and you replace the disk in time before the 2nd disk fails.

The reason RAID is used is because you need one of the 3 criteria I've listed. If you don't need any one of those 3 criteria, don't do RAID. RAID is used in a server system where there's supposed to be someone watching the system and getting alerted to replace the failed disk as soon as possible. For home use, it's much simpler and cheaper to use a single disk for storage, then copy it to a 2nd disk for backup regularly and having a 3rd disk for longer term backup.

As for software or hardware RAID, in real life situations, hardware RAID is more reliable, because you have dedicated hardware that does not rely on your OS being updated. By hardware RAID, I'm talking about dedicated stand alone units that operate on their own. EMC, NETAPP, etc.. for higher end stuff. Synology NAS for lower end; it's the only lower end one that patches regularly, then other don't.

RAID cards are not as reliable as real hardware RAID and you may have to reboot your system to access the RAID configs, if you buy cheap cards. Newer cards have drivers that can be operated and controlled from within your system. These are cheaper than the dedicated Hardware RAIDs and used by smaller companies that want cheaper systems and really are partially software RAID.

Software RAID are for people being cheap and wanting RAID for home, not understanding the 3 criteria for RAID. RAID is not backup.

RAID 5 is obsolete for any spinning disks over 1TB. Even if you replace the disk immediately, the probability of a 2nd disk failure is too great, and will likely fail before the rebuild completes. It, may, or it may not, but the chance is high. You must use RAID 6. The disks are purchased at the same time and most people bought them from a single source meaning the disks were likely from the same batch, with the same manufacturing characteristics. You can still use RAID 5 with slightly larger SSDs, but once the rebuild time increase beyond a few hours, you're taking chances. During a rebuilt all the aging disks are being heavily taxed, increasing the chance of failure.

If you are using less than 18TB, you can buy single disks that hold that much data. You don't need RAID.

If Windows isn't stable for you, then you're doing it wrong. Windows is actually more stable than OS X, and has been since 2000, after Microsoft poached the Borland Devs in the mid-late 90s. Before they started doing monolithic, cumulative patches, if you're actually using it right, you can maintain up to a solid 3 month uptime, while patching every month. You only need a reboot when a kernel level patch is applied. If you don't apply the kernel patches, you can actually keep it running longer, although, I'd always want to patch anything critical.

Surface 3 and Surface 5, and surface 7 crashed if you undock and dock with monitors. Otherwise I agree. They're solid since Windows 2000. If it's not been solid, then they're likely using it wrong and/or getting phished and installing malware.

Sounds like you just needed to reset the SMC and PRAM, or maybe go into the recovery partition and reinstall the OS to repair corrupted system files.

I guess they're in some L&S major not associated with STEM, because a chromebook just wouldn't work well in STEM. I have to buy full Windows systems to support the software needed for STEM.

You might also just have system file corruption which you can try to repair.

dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth
sfc /scannow

The manga is more complete. The movie is only the 1st quarter to a third of the manga's progression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(manga)

The D:\ drive has its own D:\:$i30:$bitmap file.