Frankly, all news organizations should run their own Mastodon servers as authoritative sources for their news articles and their reporters. Right now, with the ever changing badges on Twitter, they're just Star-bellied Sneetches.
As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers' computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it's a more efficient keyboard as long as that's the only machine you're on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.
I think The Expanse, while an amazing series that should be read anyway, doesn't fit the bill of "humans are more advanced than the aliens", since the Protomolecule and everything created by the Romans are essentially in the "tech as high level magic" category. Humans can't even understand the technology, often saying things like, the Protomolecule just changed the laws of physics.
The Honor Harrington series actually has some interesting tech disparities, besides being pretty good/exciting military science fiction.
In the first book, there are Bronze-Age-ish aboriginals.
In the second book, you see several human polities. Harrington interacts with less technologically/culturally developed groups of humans, and there are frictions and opportunities coming from the more advanced polity.
Harrington's polity generally remains the most technologically advanced group. There's later interaction with human polities who had thought they were the top dog, in terms of military power.
Just to note, it's a big series that gets somewhat too sprawling in the later books. The earlier books are Age of Sail (IN SPACE!!!) adventures, which transforms into a wide-ranging interstellar war driven by technology change. Weber's analogy is sailing ships - steam ironclads - Dreadnaught battleships - WW2 radar directed gunnery / aircraft carriers. Not everyone is at the same tech level.
I recall a thread over on Reddit, where someone in one of the dad subs was asking for advice on what to do. His wife, an OB/GYN, had gotten a job offer in Massachusetts. They were living in one of the Southern states, and her taking the job meant uprooting their young family away from nearby relatives and friends.
The response in the sub was almost unanimous telling him to move. Wife could get sued to oblivion and go to jail, etc. That would be far worse than living a few hours away from family.
To be fair, given the bottom of the barrel scraping that must be going on to find lawyers willing to work with him, some of those lawyers might be graduates of Hollywood Upstairs Legal College.
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Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;