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Sure but that is entirely different than having all of those monitors at the same single desk with multiple input devices only accessible by the one person at that desk.

Not nearly slow enough

Redundancy for a keyboard and mouse? Keep an extra set in the drawer or something. No need to have them all out and connected. Simplicity? How is it simpler to have multiple input devices littered about than one set? You can't really physically use multiple at once. Speed? Speed of what? Of input? The latency on a KVM is negligible, particularly for an IO device? Speed of swapping? With multiple keyboards and mice, you have up manually move around devices and/or your body. With a KVM, you press a button. How is that slower?

Physical context switching is the only thing I'll grant you, but I don't see how that's such a benefit compared to the hassle, clutter, and hectic work flow when you can just use a KVM.

That day when they crossed would've been a pretty mediocre day.

They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There's no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.

The house elves are the single most fucked up parts of the books for a number of reasons. And Winky is a particularly unfortunate example.

But devil's advocate, Winky didn't become an alcoholic because she as no longer a slave, per se, and definitely not because she was lazy or whatever stereotype slavers would suggest of black people. She became an alcoholic because she was extremely depressed. A) She grew up indoctrinated into this service role and felt like she had failed her mother's memory by being removed from serving the family like she had. B) She was separated from her surrogate child that she'd single-handedly cared for for over a decade (who turned out to be a murderer and a wizard nazi, but she didn't know that) and couldn't even tell anyone about it. Not saying the situation isn't fucked and more than a little gross. But I don't see the alcohol use a problematic aspect with any deeper racial meaning here. It isn't a character failing to fall into depression in this situation, given the character's background.

Also, for what it is worth, after the initial shock of finding out what Barty Couch Jr had done and that he'd been kissed by the dementors, she did eventually accept things and come out of her depression. And she was among the elve's that fought in the Battle Of Hogwarts, making her a hero as well. It's a mixed bag, man.

Sickled himself in his confusion

So subtle from the title

I ran the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign with some new players a couple years ago. I had one player who was painfully suspicious of all things, so he refused to wear his wings in the Witchlight carnival that marks him a valid patron of the carnival.

He managed to dodge a "Can I get your name?" trap that would have robbed him of his nobility along with his Noble background features. Not out of being wise to the trick, but just pure avoidance of anyone that seemed to want anything from him.

But then I had a lornling running away from an apparent theft. It bumped into sowpig as it booked it to the Hall of Illusions and knocked her down into some mud. She asked the suspicious player, "could I get an arm?" and he reached out and helped her up. She said "thanks" with a malicious grin and went the same direction as the lornling. He failed his check to detect what had happened, only feeling a general sense of loss. So it was a bit before he realized that she had stolen his ability to use melee weapons. Pretty rough for a Barbarian. Ooops!

But it did make for some great alternative combat situations. The fight in Bavlorna's house where he grappled each lornling in the room that were dodging everyone else's attacks and just yeeted them out the window to drown in the lake below was fun.

It's produced results. These are the results. Congratulations.

Those few US companies paid MAGA for this.

Almost certainly not just a money thing. They very likely also made deals for government access to and control of their devices. This isn't just corruption. It is fascism.

designating all consumer routers manufactured outside the U.S. as a security risk

So this is horseshit, right?

First of all, ALL routers from ANY country are a security risk? Every single other nation is trying to make Spyware for the average American consumer? Doubt.

Second, they are extremely concerned with all consumers' security from foreign actors to the point it needs an outright ban on hardware to protect us. God forbid I buy an AVM router from Germany and open up my home networking to German Spies. What if they find out I sometimes visit porn websites and yourube!?

Third, that the US government, themselves, are trustworthy and wont force backdoors into systems to allow them unfettered access into private networks, something that they HAVE TRIED TO AND SUCCEEDED TO DO IN THE PAST. And also something that they are very clearly opening the door for with all of these legal pushes toward requiring age verification software and OS's. They want to ban foreign routers so that you have to buy routers from companies that they can control. They can ask, coerce and force them to give them access behind the scenes for some bullshit excuse ("protect the kiddies", "law enforcement", "national security", "terrorism"), force them to not tell the public, and then "secretly" monitor every device in the entire country. They are almost certainly already doing this with a significant number of US manufacturers and software developers.

Fuck these fascists.