Sounds like a regulatory solution is needed. The intersection where domestic policy impacts international.

Back before the media decided it wasn't a competitor but rather a potential profit source. I do think the government does need to have it's own alternatives (obviously not identical more on this one day) for other reasons, such as for it's own media releases, but more internationally coordinated appropriate & considered legislation is probably better.

I like the idea and have been meaning to build / find something like this however this does a little too much and in not quite the way I want. But it's cool for those who need this exact implementation.

That can happen if you make a major change such as major update to the binaries (ie a software update) while the screen is locked. Or because the screen "saver" / "locker" crashed.

That's a ... really well defined threat...

Some monitors like the Dell U4323qe have a KVM built in, the KVM does Ethernet too.

jdownloader seems pretty close to "internet download manager"

Also I prefer yt-dlp over youtube-dl

Burn read only backups.

I feel like I have been doing this all my life. I think it's more to do with the depth of understanding too. But the environment has to support it, if there is an expectation that everyone is an expert from day one, and there is no room for self improvement then it can't be done.

As stated there are down falls with the approach such as lack of exposure to new ideas. You still need to look just not study. But to me it's also a work/life balance policy. But don't practice it in extreme as it can hold you back. Good work places should allow for some learning time and I'm hoping that gets normalized.

Age old rule, invert the statement; they aren't ready, don't start now they don't think it would be fair.

Is it mostly retries?

I feel discord does really well because the way it structures it "servers" really focuses around individuals rather than groups. Which then creates an incentive for a certain type of person to "grow their server" bringing more activity onto discord. This is confounded by both a) you join all channels on a server, 2) the ability of individuals to "mute" servers or channels; combined it means it fills up with a bunch of idlers in a way which is worse than IRC as it's unlikely they will ever read the contents or participate beyond asking a question then leaving.