Yeah, some of it may not be as easy on Linux, but I think the question was just if it’s possible or not

Most if not all of these seem very easily done on windows. You can create scripts as you like and set up environment variables like vlc. Control of updates I’m not so sure about, I haven’t messed with it I just let it auto update.

I jumped from 65k to 110k switching jobs and cities, but that was the biggest. The rest were like 10-20k

Yeah that seems reasonable. RTO is quite a powerful/interesting tool for these employers

Seems like the RTO was rushed and mishandled for some reason. I can only guess they wanted to punish the unionizers or just do a major layoff without calling it a layoff.

I don’t think we ever stopped mining it

3rd party. The two parties both suck

That’s still a lot of money though. Lots of people would want to take those jobs if they could, and I mean qualified software engineers who make less than the average big tech salary.

Lots of money