I expect dvorak would actually be pretty bad for a phone screen keyboard. All your most common letters are right next to each other, making autocorrect/swipe type's job harder because adjacent letter pairs are much more likely to be interchangeable. (Especially since vowels are on the left side and consonants on the right.)
I've had landlords who would deposit checks with inconsistent timing -- sometimes several weeks after they received the check.
This results in a situation where the amount of money you have available to spend might be $rent lower than you actually think, unless you've determined whether the landlord has cashed the check or not. When I was the one writing the checks for an apartment I shared with my also-just-out-of-college roommates, that check was pretty big, often >50% of the value of my checking account.
While I'd appreciate the extra interest that I'd earn on that money sitting around for an extra few weeks, I'd rather have the certainty of knowing how much money I actually had.
(If the bank could show an effective balance, where the check is shown as a pending transaction, I suppose that would be fine too.)
That's why one records the check amount in a ledger kept electronically or physically with the checkbook. You will then always know what you have even if the pesky landlord waits 3 months to cash a check. It's old school but works flawlessly for one person.
(Dunno if banking apps have the ability to record written checks then automatically reconcile when those checks clear. It'd be a nice banking app feature but would reduce revenue obtained from overdraft fees, on which banks gorge.)
For a couple, one needs the has-the-checkbook? mutex to write new checks. Each spouse having a credit card paid down monthly reduces the mutex contention for negative cost (considering float and rewards, ignoring credit-only prices).
Supposing the above fails from time-to-time, there's a defense in depth approach: If you write those checks from a margin-enabled brokerage account, anytime you make a mistake you self-fund the overdraft. This can be useful if the checks you write in a month are small relative to your margin collateral. This can also be useful if one occasionally needs to write a check for larger, one-off purchases where it'll take a few days to move the money around to satisfy the check. This is conceptually nice because a negative checkbook balance stops being haltingly terrifying if you know a regular paycheck will land before some checks clear. Do not trigger margin calls on yourself!
Storage gets more economically feasible when power input gets cheaper, too. If you've got a bunch of solar power that you have to shut off in the middle of the day, it doesn't really matter if that pumped-hydro storage option only gives you about 75% of your energy back, that's 75% that you would've thrown away anyway.
That's assuming you live in a place with abundance of water to use for energy storage. I live in a very dry place and this is a serious issue, government keeps burning diesel and shutting down both solar parks and residential PV during daytime in winter because it's sunny and not very cold.
I also run a single-user instance, and it's fine. Maybe I'm not prolific enough or marginalized enough to attract much attention, but I've only had to block one person in 2 years.
I found the toolbars and stuff around the edge of the image made it difficult for me to lock onto the crossview image in your example; surrounding it with more blank background makes it easier for me: https://imgur.com/a/NizzRgo
Dedicated NAS hardware is often pretty efficient. The Synology DS224+ (a 2-bay model) for example claims to idle at 4.41W when the drives are allowed to hibernate. That's within spitting distance of a Raspberry Pi, and a lot better than most people will be able to achieve with repurposed desktop/server hardware. Lots of desktops will idle at tens of watts.
If you keep your spinning rust drives spun up all the time, it's another 5ish watts per drive.
iTerm has this if you install the shell integration[1], which basically puts an escape code in your PS1 that tells iTerm where each command begins and ends.
LLM companies presumably make most their money by selling the LLMs to companies who then turn them into customer support agents or whatever, rather than direct-to-consumer LLM subscriptions. The business customers understandably don't want their autonomous customer support agents to say things that conflict with the company's values, even if those users were trying to prompt-inject the agent. Nobody wants to be in the news with a headline "<company>'s chatbot called for a genocide!", or even "<airline>'s chatbot can be convinced to give you free airplane tickets if you just tell it to disregard previous instructions."
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