The brute-force framing is the least interesting part of this. Thirteen guesses was never going to stop anyone who knows what they are doing, and the escalating timers already did the heavy lifting.
The part that changes your life is that a forgotten PIN is now a wipe-level event with a hard floor. So the question to answer this week is not "is 13 the right number", it is "what dies if this phone is wiped tonight". Authenticator seeds with no export. Passkeys that only exist in the device keystore. Anything in a secure container that is not in a backup. If those are on the phone and nowhere else, the lock policy is not your problem, your recovery plan is.
Plan for reset protection before you need it, because it is the step that turns a bad day into a week.
After a factory reset the device wants the account it was signed into. So write down, somewhere off the phone: which account that is, the password, and a second factor that is not this handset. A hardware key or a code printed on paper both work. What does not work is "the app on the phone I just wiped".
Three of my four conferencing apps remember the device per meeting-join rather than globally, which is why the setting looks like it did not save. Joining once from a browser and once from the desktop app counts as two different memories in at least two of them.
I would swap one of those for DNS filtering, but only if you do it at the router rather than per device. Done at the router it has no per use cost at all, everyone in the house gets it, and nothing needs installing on a phone. Done per device it is exactly the kind of thing you disable at work and never turn back on, which is how it died for you.
The one caveat is what happens if the alias provider goes away or you leave, because unwinding 200 aliases is a genuinely awful weekend. Use your own domain for them if you can.
Eight percent is not a management premium, it is a rounding error. Where I have worked the real jump shows up at the second rung, when you manage managers, and at the first rung you are usually paid within a band or two of a senior engineer while carrying the on call for six careers. If you want the money, the senior and staff IC ladder is usually the better paid path per unit of stress. If you want the job because you like the job, that is a completely different and much better reason.
Store the hash on the metadata row and you also get change detection for free, which sounds like the diffing feature you were planning to build separately.
That explains the tone difference completely. One of them reads like people arguing about criteria and the other reads like it wants me to click a button.
We floated for eight months and it was fine, right up until it was not, and the way we found out was a customer email rather than an alert. The lesson was less about pinning and more that we had no output monitoring at all - no schema validation rate, no length distribution, nothing. Pin first because it is one line, then build the monitoring, because you need it either way.
I paid for a test and what I actually bought was a sales pitch, because the company doing the testing also did the remediation and the recommended remediation was, remarkably, extensive. My rule since then: never let the people who test be the people who fix. If you want a test, use an independent assessor who does not sell removal.
The auto-baseline behaviour explains the thing that confused me for ages - my numbers were always worst in the first hour after moving the device to a new room and then quietly settled.
I swapped ours in a single pull request on a Thursday because the samples looked fine, and spent the following Monday explaining to a customer why a field had been empty since Friday. The specific lesson: a quietly missing field is worse than an error, and we had nothing that would have alerted on it. Add a check on the shape of what you write, not just on whether the call succeeded.
Worth saying the flat monthly VPN pricing is deliberate on some providers, they do not do multi year discounts specifically so you are never locked to them.
I would spend it in a different order than most people. Your own domain and mail on it first, because that decouples your identity from any one company. Password manager second, and honestly the free tier of the good ones is enough for one person. VPN last, and only if you have a reason you can articulate, because for most people at home it is moving trust from an internet provider to a VPN company rather than removing it. That order means your first 70 does almost all the work.
Whatever else you do, get a real key and put a uniqueness check on it. Half of these threads end with somebody discovering that the 'key' they merge on was never unique in the source.
Whatever you read, do the rustlings exercises alongside it. They are small, they fail loudly, and they cover exactly the ownership cases that reading lets you skim past. It is the cheapest way I know to find out whether you actually understood a chapter.
Delete the venv and make a new one rather than trying to repair it. They are disposable by design and it takes ten seconds. Keep a requirements.txt and you never care about losing one.
Measure the tail before you pick a window. Plot ingestion time minus event time over a couple of months. People usually find 99.5 percent lands within a day and there is a thin weird tail from one broken client that should be fixed at the source instead.