You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn't want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that's not the whole story here.
He wrote it in a book (or his writer lol), shortly before he got elected, about a year ago. Look for "Trump Zuckerberg jail threat", I don't know which source to cite here.
I mean, what is he supposed to do. The orange man threatened to put Zuckerberg in jail for the rest of his life if he doesn't comply. I have not very much hope left for the upcoming testimonies regarding Steam, Twitch, Discord and Reddit.
Also e.g. the lobbying around ACPI breaking suspend to ram sometimes. Funny little Bill Gates quote on that:
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
There are no phones with working encryption (a must imho and a lot of others) except the ones I listed in my initial comment. iPhones are no option because they are not unlockable. Samsung recently announced they will remove the option to unlock the bootloader as well. They also have a very broad and everchanging lineup of phones.
Google Pixel has been more of a hardware and software reference to developers than a Phone people would usually buy up until the redesign with the Pixel 6. There are so many hardware and software features that make it the perfect device to develop against (up until the recent events lol).
Edit: nvm, found out about Daniel Micay being difficult to communicate with on the one hand and his history of being harassed and swatted on the other.
while only running that OS on... checks notes... Google's phones...
Fairphone 6, especially with /e/os is not an option atm from a security standpoint. But then again, no phone is except iPhones and Pixels (and more recent Samsung phones).
Fairphone 6 does not keep up with standard Android privacy/security patches and has no secure element to provide working disk encryption for typical users not using a strong password, among other flaws.
Regarding privacy, Murena is shilling their own proprietary Apps as alternatives to Google.
/e/OS includes numerous non-private apps and services. The Murena voice-to-text service included in /e/OS even sends user speech data to OpenAI with no local option compared to Apple and Google both offering offline speech-to-text support via local models which users can make sure is always used:
Hard to give you hints when we don't know what your background is, so here is some basics:
For starting selfhosting I'd recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: https://www.linuxcommand.org/). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I'd recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you're on windows you can use WSL2. If you're already on a linux desktop, toy around there.
If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, ... And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.
After that, install some packages, change configs (I'd recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like... Congratulations, you are now "self hosting".
Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don't open ports to the internet as long as you're not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.
I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.
Buy a used 1l mini PC like the Lenovo thinkcentre tiny (or similar Dell or HP models). You will have to spend a bit more, but you could get one with a pretty capable Intel CPU from gen 7 or 8 upwards for virtualization with Proxmox.
If you're really just looking for a x86 SBC, get a Radxa with an Intel N100 or something similar. They sell at about your price limit with low specs on Aliexpress:
I have played the remasters of 1 and 2. I believe they are very close to the base game but a little more optimized / polished graphically speaking. So I'd say go for it. 40% is not nothing, but I played the first game 2 or 3 times until now anyway.
There was great potential in the story, I was just underwhelmed by the ending. The setting in the clouds was cool, but honestly not quite comparable to Rapture. It was also pretty short.
Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, mean average in itself just wouldn't be a useful measurement.
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
What you described would be the median, not average. Those can be very far apart, a good example is the distribution of wealth. Put 10 homeless people in a room with Bill Gates and everyone's a billionaire on average.
You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn't want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that's not the whole story here.