Same here. I usually unplug and replug (and cry)

Crazy. I can't believe that's the norm. As a sanity check, I've ordered 3 different Thunderbolt 4 docks (Sonnet Echo 11, Blaze, Razer) to see if the problem continues. It feels like it's a Mac issue and not a dock issue.

Do you have some technique to get all your windows back to the position they were in before?

That does not really happen to me

I’m going to buy one of these model. hoepfully this is some software issue

FWIW, I use Plugable's TBT3-UDC1 to connect to 2 external 4K DisplayPort monitors (plus keyboard/mouse/Ethernet) with a couple of Intel MacBooks, and it remembers layout/window positions on plugging in and wakeup. It's reliable with an Air (2020 / Intel integrated graphics), but a Pro (16" 2019) with discrete Radeon graphics sometimes kernel panics on wake/plugin (macOS Catalina & Big Sur).

I have a plugable as well with a 2020 16” mbp and was getting kernel panics until I switched from HDMI to DisplayPort and haven't seen the issues since. Don't have any issues with display waking either

I do, with a comment near it, something like: ; Vendored from under EPL1

I also mention code/concepts used from other places under license(s) section in README. Example https://github.com/clj-commons/rewrite-clj#licences and from https://github.com/lread/test-doc-blocks#license.

I've used function https://clojure.org/reference/metadata for this purpose in the past - I added a :license key like this:

{:name "MIT License"
 :source ""}

yeah i like the metadata or comment version for small sections, the readme makes sense if its larger parts. thanks!

Ooh, the license-in-metadata idea is great! This way one could query one's entire codebase for license information, if one has taken parts of sources.