If it takes unethical practices to provide for an animal, it’s unethical to have the animal.

That being said, supervised outside team seems like a reasonable choice.

Any stock based investment is more risky for short-term saving as there is no guarantees of returns and potential drops in value. For long term savings, the dips can be waited out and on average have historically gotten good return over the long run. For shorter term savings you could consider fixed income like CDs. While the rates are lower, they are guaranteed so you will have your money when you need it

I personally track it in a self hosted jellyseer instance, but I used to use trakt.tv

The Roth IRA is great advice. I think a 401k is good as long as you are maxing your company’s contribution. Any higher than that would be better invested in another account so you could use it for an emergency before retirement

If there are culture problems with Arizona, I’m sure Germany will be more difficult. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-arizona-struggles-to-overcome-vast-differences-between-taiwanese-and-us-work-culture

Looks a whole lot like rundeck

As others mentioned it would to know what you plan to use the workspace for.

If it’s general configuration management and coding (text editing) an alternative to something like guacamole/rdp/vnc would be to use VsCode remotely over SSH. This lets you run code’s UI on a local machine but open and operate on remote files with little overhead. The other option is always ssh + tmux + vim, which is really lightweight, but probably harder to learn.

While remote desktop solutions work (like guacamole) they can introduce a fair amount of input latency which can be awkward.

It’s a bit pedantic, but it’s " substitute user and do" it’s doesn’t need to be root, that is just most commonly used

It’s celebrated in many Asian countries, so calling it lunar New Year is a simple way to not group them all as Chinese.