What's the country? I'm in this situation in Poland and I'm running a company (sole proprietorship). I'd say the majority of IT work is done this way here for tax benefits, even within the country.
You may be doing the employee a favor this way (their costs can be written off), and you'll make things simple for yourself.
BMW got much better since the switch to B series engines, N series era was horrible. Timing chains between the engine and gearbox are a pain point though, they need to be replaced with mileage.
Not all N series engines are awful. The N52, while not as amazing as the previous M52/M54 engines, is a fantastic, reliable engine. However, the 4 cylinder N20 used between 2011-2017 is the worst. Faulty timing chain guides often fail and immediately grenade the engine. They were so bad there was even a class action lawsuit
The N53 is notably one of bmw's less reliable engines. Everything that goes wrong with it is tedious to debug and ends up hugely expensive to fix because you always end up needing to replace several pricey injectors. Then it breaks again later.
The N52 seems rather better, as all its common faults are relatively cheap to fix.
The B58 and B48 are quite impeccably good engines, both in terms of reliability and also performance/response. I had an excellent experience with my B58-powered M240i. I've also never heard anyone needing to do anything in practice with timing chains on these engines, even at high mileage. It seems the whole car would be worn out before the timing chain wears out, provided you use decent quality oil and don't neglect oil changes.
The older N52 engine is also very solid and reliable, my high mileage 2006 330i (E90) has been rock solid reliable in its powertrain.
My mechanic told me the N20 engine is terrible though, he has encountered an absurd number of them failing. The N54 is solid enough mechanically, though they get HPFP issues and need occasional cleaning of soot/gunk from valves.
The concept of this website (sixcolors.com) is bewildering to me. I sincerely hope the authors are being handsomely paid by Apple behind the scenes, otherwise they just spend their lives doing free advertising for a trillion dollar corporation.
He's a long term journalist (was editor in chief at MacWorld) focusing on Apple and is also podcasting on Apple. If you're married to the Apple ecosystem his insight are pretty interesting.
unlike this website, which provides a penumbra of authenticity to a tech funding cartel which regularly runs pump'n'dump schemes against the rest of the world?
Is it though? Seems like (1) they are fans of the products; (2) they want to write about stuff they like; and (3) they figure out that they can make a career out of it.
The proprietor was editor of Macworld and similar publications for a couple decades. It probably sounds crazy to you, but there are and/or were entire print magazines reporting on the Apple ecosystem!
I could be wrong, but I don't believe HN relies on selling user data like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok does. That is what I meant by that. That dramatically changes the incentives and therefor the experience.
