No, they aren't.

First, it's not ruined. There's lots of cesspools, but there's lots of good out there too. Also, while we all get a bunch of shit presented to us, you also attract what you put out, and what you go looking for. The algorithms make sure of that. You get more of what you interact with.

Second, it's not a few people. It's the majority of people ruining the internet. Eternal September proves this. The masses of dumbshits have a multiplying effect on scum content. They interact with it, making sure everyone sees more of it. They even repost it in the name of mocking it, likewise.

What's the relevance of your traffic?

Did you miss the point that we're talking about the FBI? Government still does a ton of shit by fax. (e.g. see the bottom header on this page.) You clearly just don't have any idea how poorly any of this shit is run at all, or how resistant to change government is.

Dear clown, learn facts.

Your experience is worthless, because it definitely happens. I have a friend who worked for an ISP in Santa Cruz who was required to not only capture traffic for several customers, but also provide it to the FBI on DVD-ROM. I would hope they use something else now. This was well after everything went SSL.

Is it from a fake nerd, or just one of my many dick-riding haters, who are nothing without me to hate?

You mean African, European...

You don't get to complain about Harris contradicting herself while supporting Trump. That is one of the most hypocritical decisions possible.

Yes, for that purpose there are any number of Chinese mini PCs you could use that would do the job at least as well. I just ordered a slightly older machine with a 5825U, 32GB of dual channel memory, and a 1TB nVME SSD for under $300. It has the same architecture as my primary desktop (Zen 3) so it will be convenient, I can reuse binaries even if I build them for this architecture specifically, and only need one set of compilers for distcc. The SoC TDP is 15W. It's under $600 for a more modern system but power consumption is very important for my specific use case (it's meant to be the PC in an RV and sip power from the solar equipment) so I went with this older chip. The newer one is only about 40% more powerful for three times the consumption...

Do you have a Gen 2 board, did you get lucky with your storage devices, or did you use an addin host adapter?

I don't care if a game has to run in proton any more, since the performance is now so good. And when proton starts using ntsync it will be even better.

You posted a lot of links for someone who doesn't care. Is this your job?

We all heard of warp speed. It wasn't his idea and any president would have said yes to it. He then flubbed the COVID response in literally every other way, so no he doesn't deserve any credit. He also refused to pay for any vaccinations up front, while Dolly Parton provided since actual funding for development, so a country singer did more to promote the development of vaccines than the president did.

"In what way is what I post on X, Facebook or Slashdot and a restaurant harvesting likely to enhance my dining experience?"

Nobody can speak to that without doing what this restaurant is doing. But one very obvious potential example is looking at what you save said about other dining and entertainment experiences so they can get an idea of what you do or don't like.

Most home users are not seeking privacy first, it's mostly about being able to appear to be coming from other countries, or at most just hiding from their ISP who is obligated to monitor them.