As everyone else is saying it'd take a significant bump in pay that not only offsets my incurred daily commute expenses but also gives me a meaningful weekly take home increase.

Plus I work better by myself at home where I can control my daily interruptions vs having to put up with annoying coworkers in-person who could just walk into my office whenever they wanted so I feel like going back to an office would impact the quality of my produced work.

The smart ones are leaving because of the dumb folks nonsense. This is starting to sound familiar...

In what context are you required to pay licensing for Wi-Fi drivers?

I dunno buddy, a lot of these python packages have gotten pretty bloated on their own requiring 1000 weirdo deps to install a simple calculator app.

Sounds like Obsidian is a great alternative