Eh, the TPM is a hell of a lot less functional than security processor on a modem arm board. You can seal and unseal based on system state, but once things are unsealed, it's just in memory
Nearly all of the stories of unrecoverable data loss I've read involve someone discovering they have a problem, then trying the traditional ext/xfs recovery techniques before reading the docs, and thereby destroying their fs.
As someone who has used it in my day job since 2014, I find it around 5% believable. I've had nasty performance issues on old kernels, but never a single instance of unrecoverable data loss, and I've run it in plenty of pathological cases. Experiences differ
This is hackernews, common lisp is the standard suggestion for personal projects. Especially if you found the debugging experience in Python lacking. It's not on your list, but definitely worth taking a look.
I've been running it on hundreds of servers in prod since once of the lead devs gave a talk at LinuxCon 2014 saying it was good to go. Had a few performance issues here and there, especially on older kernels, but never any data loss
No, you'd be surprised at all the random crap they put on the center channel nowadays. You just need an equalizer and use it to boost the frequencies of human speech. A lot of AVRs call this "dialogue enchancer", but you can do it easily in software
If you were using centos for fedramp, unless you got a variance from the feds, you were not in compliance. No one actually paid to have NIST evaluate centos's binaries (evaluation/certification must be of the compiled binary, not the source code, barring an exception made for openssl, and only openssl, not the kernel)
It's not a course, but I definitely recommend the book "Deep C Secrets", I couldn't put it down, and had a similar feeling to being in a good, difficult, class.
The install medium had documentation loaded, and installing which forms of documentation you want to the persistent system is right in the installation guide
What are some examples of things that were in the leaks that were actually new information? PRISM is basically the only thing the Utah datacenter could have been used for back then. Cisco firmware having backdoors wasn't even really considered to be on the crackpot side of things pre leaks. I remember people being surprised at the scope of their shipping-intercept program when the leaks were new, but that's about it.
Didn't they lose all biometric info for all federal employees in the OPM hack? Fingerprints and retinal images (for those who had them) too?
My x1c6 managed to cut into the e-DP cable inside its hinge when it was only three years old (right out of warranty). That was not a repair for the faint of heart (have to completely disassemble the monitor unit).
One of the thunderbolt ports started detaching from the board when it was around 4 years old, stopped working even for charging about a year after that. I didn't even try to fix that one