Or just get a usb air mouse remote. There's plenty available.

Why build your own? There are plenty of available set top boxes on the market complete with remote controls and a variety of different software, everything from the cheap chinese android boxes running kodi to the apple tv, and all of them are better than the crapware bundled with any tv set.

The biggest problem is caused by the deficiencies of legacy IPv4 and the various kludges to mitigate those deficiencies instead of using the proper solution.

Early versions of HTTP/HTTPS assumed one site per IP. It was quite easy for a firewall to whitelist and/or blacklist individual sites.
Then they added host headers and SNI to allow multiple sites to share a single IP. This is because legacy IPv4 is expensive and in short supply.

So now in order to whitelist/blacklist sites you need to filter at a higher level as you need to be able to match the host header not just the IP.

Once you add in SSL it gets even worse as your firewall devices cannot inspect the Host header without breaking SSL. Some places implement full SSL interception and MITM, but this then totally breaks with applications that enforce certificate pinning etc.

Yes it's a mess of kludge upon kludge, resulting in security problems, Move to IPv6 with unique IPs per site and these problems can go away.

You didn't read the whole post: "Set up your TV to simply be a monitor and use a cheap little computer as an HTPC".

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it. The devices are cheap and much easier to replace than a tv. I have a tv from more than 10 years ago which i still use in one room, with a newer box connected to it. The built in crapware on the tv is now totally useless as it stopped being supported years ago.

AIX has always run on Power/PPC, running it on an Apple branded PPC machine is not strange at all. Legacy macOS 10 was never meant as a server OS so it made sense to use something that was.

IBM Z has run Linux for a long time, it's not surprising that people would port other open source systems to it like opensolaris, there's probably BSD ports too.

Azure is just not all that great. AWS, GCP, even Oracle and several other options have a lot of advantages, the main selling point of azure is being tied to windows and other legacy systems.
If you have a clean slate you're much better off going with AWS or GCP.

They killed a lot more of their own civilians back in january than the combined US/IL strikes have done since.

It depends what those devices are. In a lot of cases this "huge farm" is actually "hundreds of virtual machines running on the same hypervisor" so you absolutely can compile a custom kernel and roll it out. The memory usage vs a generic kernel will also be somewhat lower, multiplied by the number of virtual machines and you have quite decent savings.

Using the waste heat makes much more sense in a new development, as the properties would be designed to make use of the waste heat rather than having to retrofit it later alongside a conventional heating system.
You would assume that the server farm would have its own connectivity, and having installed it they could use the same physical lines to provide service to the residents, so long as it's optional and you're not forced to use this specific provider (their service could be terrible).

A lot of school systems are set up to memorise answers to exam questions, rather than actually understand the topic.
So the homework doesn't need supervision of a teacher because the kid doesn't need to understand the content, he just has to keep reading it until he remembers it.

Ideally you should be taught the topic properly, and the teacher is around to make sure that you actually do understand and aren't just repeating memorised answers.

Noone needs homework.
If you're having to do work at home after school, then it means the teacher hasn't done their job of teaching the stuff in class.

What you're seeing is when the classroom is a poor place for learning, due to disruption from other kids such as bullying, or a class which moves at the pace of the slowest kid. All of these are faults of the school and teachers, not something to pass on to the kid.

I have it running on a 1GB vm where the total memory usage right now is 450mb, so that leaves quite a lot free.
You can self host on a pi, even the cheapest model has 1GB ram these days and it's not hugely more expensive to buy the larger models.

The giant clusterfuck of email delivery is a separate issue, although if someone has explicitly triggered a signup email they will be expecting it and will usually check for it having been flagged as spam. You don't actually *need* to use email delivery, there are several other options.

Very few ISPs intentionally block inbound TCP. What you're seeing is a side effect of IPv4 depletion where ISPs are forced to implement CGNAT.

A lot of people have to self host on IPv6-only for this reason, but then the site is inaccessible to users stuck on legacy networks, and worse is that no current browser provides a descriptive error message when that happens.

Many people don't have the knowledge to configure and manage such a thing - yes even developers. System management is a different skillset and there isn't always crossover, and if you do it badly you could end up leaving security holes.

Many people have nowhere to host such a thing. A lot of ISPs are implementing CGNAT, and IPv6 is not yet everywhere so peoples options for self hosting are often limited.

They have historical precedence. There was another group that were ideologically opposed to the existence of jews, and while not totally destroyed they were eliminated as a unified force, leaving only a few far less threatening stragglers.