That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace culture. While it's meant to be funny, it actually touches some deeper philosophical truths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU [Do Nothing - a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach]

> There’s one key change I made to escape this cycle: I remind myself that I’m not an artist, and coding isn’t creative expression.

Unless you're into code golf or other forms of "art", a software developer is first and foremost a craftsperson, depending on the position maybe even an engineer, leader, or scienctist.

Ideally you build things you're proud of, because they're useful and maybe even beautiful and masterfully crafted.

Some devices with 13th gen Intel processors support in-band ECC. This basically hides a fraction of RAM from the OS and uses it for ECC.

Example devices are: LattePanda Sigma [0] and AsRock Industrial NUCS BOX-1360P [1].

Unfortunately they are quite expensive and enabling in-band ECC lowers performance significantly. So my next server rig will likely have an AMD PRO CPU instead.

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/lattepanda-sigma-review-the-ras... [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/18732/asrock-industrial-nucs-...

Recently I wiped the contents of the Trusted Platform Module of a laptop. Now the laptop failed to boot as the Bitlocker key was not stored in the TPM anymore.

To my surprise it was possible to get a code from Microsoft to access the laptop's disk again, as one of the admin accounts was a Microsoft account.

I strongly suspect, Microsoft does only activate Bitlocker during the OOBE if it can set-up this kind of Bitlocker recovery mechanism, storing an (indirect) decryption key at Microsoft.