They might be right for other reasons though. I once worked at a lab where they were doing r&d on this sort of thin solar cells, and their stability and longevity was the #1 biggest problem. They worked great inside those anaerobic box thingies in the lab, but they degraded to nothing very quickly upon first contact with real atmosphere.
It definitely is a better deal though, if you can scrape up the sum.
You rent for 20 years, all the money you've spent over those 240 months is gone forever. That wealth has been transferred from you to another entity. It's not yours anymore in any way shape or form.
You buy a house, your wealth just changes shape. Money in your bank account becomes real estate with your name on the papers. You still have your wealth, for the most part. Sure you'll lose some on the maintenance and the mortgage and whatnot, but long term it's not even in the same ballpark of 240 months of rent.
Not a difficult decision to make, if, again, you are in a position to make it in the first place.
Using a foreign language only delays the "enemy", which might be tactically valuable depending on the situation but the message will eventually get cracked, have no doubt about that. It's not a secure way of hiding your information and it's foolish to even consider it. Some forensic dude's gonna analyze your shit and it's all going to become 100% transparent in no time at all.
Encryption, on the other hand, can be mathematically proven to be EXTREMELY unlikely to be cracked even by the best efforts of well funded experts, when properly implemented and used.
The OS has no concept of an "fn" key. The keyboard never sends an fn keycode to the host machine. It's a feature that's entirely handled by the keyboard firmware itself. Your computer either receives an F2 key or a "brightness down" key, but it has no idea an fn key was involved in that one way or another.
So you could maybe modify your keymap to swap things out yourself. Intercept the "brightness down" keycode and manually map it to F2 or whatever. That's the only in-software solution I can think of. That's basically what the BIOS toggles do, as far as I know. Less than ideal to do yourself, though.
They were just MOTDs, which are few lines of text displayed on the terminal when you first launch a session. You just have to edit one line in a config somewhere to get rid of them. Annoying but not exceptionally so.
Built-in Bluetooth modules tend to "just work" for the most part, but external adapters are a whole other story. They are a pain and it's best to buy them from somewhere that won't ask questions if you try to return it.
At the very beginning of the game you get presented with 2 bills to choose from. "Fuck Cancer" is the official name of the bill that cures cancer. The other one ends world hunger and is called "Let Them Eat Cake".
It does. But it comes with just one door because one door on an apple car = 5 doors on other cars. To get more doors you need to pay $13999 extra per door.
Also when you step on the gas pedal it opens the glove box because that's clearly the best way to utilize that input, literally every other car on the planet and what they do with that pedal is simply wrong. You have to perform a two hand operation to actually accelerate the car, because that's the apple way of controlling your car and it's better.
My company recently made a website for some finance company. They told our designer what they wanted, the designer did her thing, we presented the design, they gave their feedback, we made changes, and at some point we arrived at a design that the client approved.
First thing the client did after the site went live was to completely replace all the text. All of it. The design was specifically made to accommodate the text that they had written themselves. The new text was SIGNIFICANTLY more than what the site was designed around, and of course it broke the whole thing.
"Why does this section look so bad", asks the client. Could that be because you pasted four whole paragraphs into a box that was supposed to display one short sentence, you absolute moron? The site's been up for about a week and they're already demanding a rather extensive redesign of the whole thing. Why the fuck did you approve it then?
Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don't much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.
I once went on a 2-week vacation and forgot to take out the very full and very moist trash out of my nice and warm kitchen.
It was... thriving, when I returned. Hard to describe how disgusting it was. I actually threw up while cleaning it out.