Fonts do have patents and copywrite laws as “works of art” or in the methods to convert what you see on a computer to your printer or whatnot. For example here’s the history of Calibri:

The Typography Group at Microsoft is responsible for both fonts and the font rendering systems in Windows. Since version 3.1 the primary font system built into Windows has been the TrueType system, licensed from Apple in a deal (with hindsight) remarkably beneficial to Microsoft. Working with Monotype, the Microsoft Typography Group produced fine TrueType versions of Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, tuned to be extremely legible on the screen; these were all ready for the launch of Windows 3.1. Since then these core fonts have been developed to cover more and more of the world’s languages. In the mid-1990s under Robert Norton a program of truly new type designs was begun, using TrueType technology to render faithfully the bitmaps and outlines designed by Matthew Carter (Verdana, Georgia, Tahoma) and by in-house designer Vincent Connare (Trebuchet, Comic Sans). Until August 2002 these “core fonts” were offered freely over the Web, where they made an undoubtedly positive contribution in terms of legibility and font choice. In 1996 the OpenType initiative with Adobe was announced; this is touted as the end of the font wars’, whereby advanced multilingual text layout becomes available, native rendering of PostScript fonts becomes part of Windows 2000, and unwieldy font formats are rationalized. In 1998 the group announced ClearType. This is a very ingenious method to increase legibility on color LCD screens, individually targeting the 3 subpixels (red, green and blue) that make up each pixel. Such a leap forward in readability on these screens is a crucial element to the success of nascent eBook technology. Simon Daniels at the Group’s website keeps font fans and font developers up to date with most aspects of the digital typography scene, and communicates the technicalities of how fonts work in Windows. Updating us about the current (October 2000) activity of the Group, Simon notes: 1999 saw several members of the group leave to join Microsoft’s eBooks group. These included technical lead Greg Hitchcock, developers Beat Stamm and Paul Linerud as well as former Monotype hinters Michael Duggan and Geraldine Wade. The past twelve months has beeen a rebuilding period for the group, with numerous new hires [sic.] replacing earlier departures. The Group continues to provide font related services for Microsoft, and freely licensed tools and technology to the wider type development community. On August 12, 2002 Microsoft discontinued the free availability of the “core fonts”, noting that “the downloads were being abused” in terms of their end-user license agreements. Most commentators took this to mean the company objected to the fact that the fonts were being installed with Linux distributions.

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/calibri-ms-font-microsoft-corporation

Their papers should be just a uno reverse card and a one way ticket to Europe.

GUI for managing fingerprints/PAM that allows complicated or at least some customization with PAM such as requiring password on first login then allowing graphical fingerprints for sudo, unlock and other prompts with fallback to password.

I googled the echo flex and I don’t see any evidence someone has gotten the bootloader unlocked or have been able to install a custom ROM/OS. Depending on the generation the flex is based on, it could be Linux or android based. Have you been able to access the os on your devices? If not, you might have a lot of work on your hands to get enough access to install any kind of non-stock OS.

Which could end up with the supreme Court reviewing if a presidents broad powers can override the first amendment.

If it’s like a vpn interface, it’s still running as a deamon in the background even if the browsers are closed.

Like others have said you can check what application is using each open port. You can also check running processes (ps | grep keywords) and interfaces (ip a).

That mail/[.]my-mail/[.]rocks maps to the tor network.

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/E3F16EEB32F9C0B28325891F7BAACA8EC212343D

https://www.eff.org/issues/national-ids

Papers please.

Federal policy under President Joe Biden’s administration stated that without “exigent circumstances” agents would not conduct their operations at natural disaster or emergency sites. Whether that policy remains in place, however, remains unclear.

Willing to bet policy doesn’t matter anymore.

It’s a slippery slope before nearly every state follows suit. The chain reaction isn’t going to lead to more democratically elected candidates.

What makes you think they’ll even try to?

Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20230117115926/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html

“we have more important things to discuss” and “why are we still talking about this and wasting time when there’s a secret laptop and emails” /S

I think most people weren’t fully aware until recently. You had to be active online or actually look for information to see it was more than just rich billionaire syndrome. We all live in bubbles and some people didn’t get to hear about all the details with the 2019 pedo submarine incident Nowadays it would be very difficult to argue you didn’t know but bought a Tesla because it’s in your face.

For context, the model S was first sold in 2012, the model x in 2015, model 3 in 2017 and Y in 2020.

“Trump’s gulf hurricane wipes out south”

She can only be impeached by the house of representatives then removed by the Senate so probably safe to assume never or at least not for 2+ years.

They won’t care if you bring your own device unlocked. If you’re buying from Apple’s website or another 3rd party, it should give the option to select the version between unlocked or carrier specific options like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile.

You can buy the locked version from T-Mobile outright if it’s cheaper. If you ever want to change carriers you can get it unlocked after a certain amount of time around 90 days.

Edit: Based on your other comments, you’re buying from Apple directly. The last question relates to if the device is carrier locked. Choose “Connect to any carrier later”.

In that case, and if you do need a gpu (such as jellyfin, Plex or another reason) look at the GPU transcoding link in my previous comment. You can flash Nvidia consumer cards or price compare with Intel A series GPUs. This means a bit of tinkering but if you need transcoding and cheap Quadros aren’t available to you, it’s an option.

You can always go for a used PC with integrated graphics like Intel and see if that works for your use case. Follow the recommendation for a big case with lots of space, look at any of the dell Optiplex or similar office PCs. If you have specific applications Google them + minimum or recommended requirements. An SSD as a boot drive is absolutely worth it over an HDD.

Your camera setup probably won’t need an external graphics card but if it does you can always upgrade later.

All of those components should be used and a few generations behind to save cost. A used Quadro m4000 is about $100 usd in the US. A used Xeon based office PC all in should be ~$400-600 USD max stateside and you can find whichever drives you need to add. I don’t know what your local economy is like or what you can expect. If you’re able to find a used office PC or and older device, give that a try and see if it works. If you have 15 users all hitting a computer it’s going to take resources. Those resources are going to depend on what they’re doing. If you want enterprise fault tolerance, ECC may be worth the extra cost. If you want to budget it out you can probably get everything you want running on something 4-5 generations behind for around $100 USD + drives cost.

Consider if you’re going media streaming like a Plex/jellyfin server. It would be kinda similar to playing 15 YouTube videos on your desktop.

If it’s 15 users with maybe 2-3 hitting it at any one time then you can build cheaper and get decent performance. If you’re just hosting static pages/simple programs with low resource requirements anything post 2010 with 4 cores and 8GB RAM will probably run it fine and work as file storage for cameras.

Based on your description, your exposing something to the Internet. You absolutely should have things virtualized/containers and use a reverse proxy. Use cloudflare for the domain name registration and take advantage of their ddos protection. Keeping everything virtualized/separated would also give an IDS a fighting chance since they’d have to pivot if you bothered to setup firewalls between the devices.

If you have the space for some used servers, you can find something affordable. Any enterprise server will be loud and electricity costs should be factored.

If you don’t have the space for a noisy server, an old workstation on the used market can be affordable. Otherwise you can build something yourself using consumer parts. Ryzen 5 (Ryzen will allow you to use ECC RAM which is something you might want) or an i7/Xeon from the previous generation or two should be more than enough. Add 32-64Gb of RAM and a SSD boot drive. I’d probably get HDDs designed for surveillance to save cost and put your file server storage on an SSD separate from the OS. Backups on VMs are stupid easy too which means you’re more likely to bother using and testing them.

Edit: forgot about GPU. If you’re using as a media server and need transcoding or another reason, an external GPU like the Nvidia p600 m4000 will work. Use this link to figure out what you need (you don’t have to use Plex it’s just a guideline)