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
Music too fast, jail. Music too slow, believe it or not, also jail
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
I feel the the email goes both ways. I keep my email clean so I feel comfortable remembering and seeing only what's still important. It's a coping mechanism to deal with my default behavior, kinda like a checklist
It's celebrated in many Asian countries, so calling it lunar New Year is a simple way to not group them all as Chinese.