I have worked in software development for over 35 years. In that time I have found that the most proficient teams are based on having smart people working in teams that get along well. We’d probably call that emotional safety today, but previously, we just said that everyone worked well together. I don’t know what jobs require interviewing for such a specific response, maybe I’ve never needed that skill set on my team. Intelligent, small ego, team players have been the best teams I have worked with, and I’ll continue to hire based on my gut for those individuals.
I have the matte display and on a primarily white background I see a lot of prismatic artifacts. Basically tiny slivers of red, green, and blue everywhere. On darker backgrounds they disappear and the content is beautiful. I’m definitely looking at bringing it in and exchanging for the non-matte version to see if this fixes the problem.
I agree with the article, opera should be seen as well. It’s an event, an opportunity to explore emotions, and an exhibit of talent from musicians, singers, and staff. Some of the arias work well as stand-alone audio recordings, but it is the entire opera that must be seen and heard to really feel the story. Take a chance and attend a few operas.
So you will not have recurring costs hosting your own system? No hard drive replacements, upgrades, board replacements, wholesale technology upgrades when different networking or security protocols come along, capacity upgrades, and your time and energy? For most people, paying a small amount per year to place this burden on someone else is money well spent.
I'm assuming that you already have part of the infrastructure at home for other purposes (a network, a gaming PC, a media server, etc.). All that can also utilise the same NAS.
I guess if you feel paying for terabytes of Google drive is not much of an expense more power to you. It's certainly fire and forget. I find it too expensive, and irritating to keep paying for all the historical data I've generated. When my RAID is about to reach capacity, I buy a couple of 4 TB drives and that's it. No subscription to worry about.