It’s fine, but not going to be the cheapest.

Cheap to buy: Any old PC desktop, really. Most will run linux and windows fine, depending on what you want. Anywhere from free to £100. If you have an old desktop or laptop already, use that to start with.

Cheap to run: Any mini PC. I run a Lenovo ThinkCentre M53 for low power duties. Cost £40 and runs silently at 10watts, idle. (I have a secondary, much beefier server for other stuff that runs at around 100w which lives in the garage)

But plenty of people do run mac minis as home servers, often on Linux. They’re fine - just do your homework on the CPU ability, how much ram you can add, and whether you’re okay with external disks if you can’t fit enough inside.

Anarchism is all about working together to build a better world where everyone has all of their needs met,

Hmm, I was working with the classic disctionary definition which is “a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.”

But you’re right, anarchism does have that other meaning, so perhaps a better word would be “chaos”.

His actions in supporting Trump in the US, promoting hate and extermist views on X globally, and encouraging civil war in the UK do all fit a chaos agenda. That’s not about money - at least, not that I can see.

He is one of the world’s most dangerous people, however, and I don’t say that lightly. Not least because of his history of being unpredictable.

More governments should follow Brazil’s example and push back.

He has more than anyone else in the history of the world. By any scale, he’s won at money.

That’s been said, and perhaps it has been true. But when you’re the richest man in the world by a significant margin, you have literally won at money and to remain competitive you need to move onto other things. Like the power of politics, and working to destabilise multiple countries at once.

He’s already got all the money and most of the power. Now his hobby is far right extremism and anarchy.

Over the past year Musk has removed all masks and clearly believes he can operate beyond the law. His motives are clearly to watch the world burn. He is an extremely dangerous, unpredictable and powerful man, threatening democracy across the globe.

Our governments need to protect us from him. Brazil’s being brave here, I hope they’re just the first.

Fun - we get to see how susceptible Meta is to blackmail, for that’s what this is. “Illegal” from Mr Trump means “Anything I don’t agree with”

Working in IT doesn’t mean you know everything about what’s on the internet.

(Source: I also work in IT. A toddler with a tablet knows more about a lot of things online than I do)

No shit. The amount of far-right propaganda, hate and disinformation it’s pushing is so much that it’s pretty much over the line as an extremist site now, and I expect it to start getting flagged as that with a lot more organisations.

Musk wants to set the world on fire and X is his box of matches.

Sure, although google does the heavy lifting as I’ve given the strings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Notice

https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/law/civil-law/super-injunction/

I am not very well versed in Australian law, but this indicates to me that free speech is indeed protected in Australia.

It aims to, but it is not a right.

See the two exclusions on the page you linked.

blocked when…

( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others; ( b ) For the protection of national security or of public order, or of public health or morals.

In this case, public order may be considered valid, although my personal view is that it wasn’t.

In Australia, humour has a long history of bad taste, but a longer history of religious repression through law. Think 1960s America - that describes much of Australian rural culture, with extra bad language. (Although NSW was a lot more tolerant when I travelled around the country)

In the UK, free speech is not possible either. See D-notices, and later super-injunctions to stop media and individuals reporting on facts.

We replaced our vm hosts recently with AMD ones - literally half the price with a lot more performance.

Xeon’s always led the pack for enterprise hardware, but no longer. Confidence in Intel has been dropping for a while.

That’s them dead soon, then.