I agree with the sentiment of your article and I'm looking forward to seeing your follow ups. I'm always trying to keep things as simple as the problem I solve allows for.

It was clearly a setup for more content to come...

Haha completely forgot about this comment. But i'm very gald it helped! I remember struggling with that problem for a long time.

It's a long shot, but I had something similar on one of mine servers once. It was fixed by installing irqbalance and starting that daemon at startup.

Cool, I know where this is, Heerlen in the Netherlands. They're several more, all very nice https://t.ly/PGPOf

No idea, I like to build/make my own.

Only thing that comes to mind is https://github.com/citronneur/rdpy