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Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Personally, I'd go with the black, considering your workstation has a black theme. That way, it matches :) Plus, you can always paint them. :)
Also, what stand is that. I know, I know. Yes, I'm still looking for a stand. I'm just too cheap ;)
That is a full pod of Dell blade servers. They are typically used in compute clusters of some sort. My guess would be either a VMware farm or render farm.
I agree with you about the handling part. I was lucky enough to get my order in within a couple of days of the launch. I just gotta wait for Element14 to ship it :D As for the certifications, they had to go ahead and do the certs because the product ended up having a very high demand from people...