Anticapitalist

Probably the rise of IoT bringing people down the stack to microcontrollers

After the electrical grid, but before the internet the most accurate clock available in most people's houses was the 50/60Hz of AC power.

The expenses you list would be paid by the company for in-office work. They should not lower your compensation.

Stories of 8pm calls are not limited to work from home employees though.

He's an exempt member of a union, not a contractor.

Doesn't seem all that subtle to me

There's tons of them.

Facebook groups, linked-in groups and subreddits for any discipline already exist and are waiting for you to join them.

It doesn't read like an ad.

It reads like the often repeated (and ignored) experience of women in tech.

If you go with the precision line from small business it's the same hardware, but with much more customization

But shouldn't the time required to review also drop significantly when the reviewer is familiar with the module?

Technically yes, but it's not as practical as the high end video cameras mentioned above.

Why are you so enamored with giving up control of your hardware to the laptop manufacturer?

From never-fixed bugs in manufacturer's firmware to setting up things to happen on the next boot, there are innumerable reasons to write to the BIOS from a higher level.

You get Dickens-esque wordiness from pay-by-word, not short and punchy

:s/willing/able

You missed the most likely business case.

The hardware across a family with different prices and features is identical. Features are then enabled/disabled by firmware alone.

This is frequently done to save on silicon manufacturing costs, but still allows marketing/sales to negotiate on features.

That's 20 installations, not 20 users. In early computing many users would share the same computer.

A 4 bedroom house in South palo alto is at least a $1 million property. Not exactly modest.

Realistically it seems the impediment is perceived loss of comfort from loss of income.