Indeed. While I only run my own email servers (along with web and DNS), it is not even that hard if you are competent. I do it to stay atop of the respective security and system administration questions, as I mostly teach IT security these days. I think you should be able to do most things you teach yourself.

As to the problems you mention:

Not assured delivery is something you always have. No other service is better, including physical mail. But email offers automatic notification of reception. Sure, you want to limit that in order to prevent reflector attacks, but it can be made to work. And then this works pretty well.

No authentication is solved. PGP/GnuPG does it. Integrations are available. I have even seen one integrated into Outlook used in a major Bank. Entirely usable for non-experts. Less comfortable for individuals, but still doable. At this time, the pain is just not large enough. The tech is there, but authentication is never free. Yes, the web-of trust remains as a limit, but this bank just had some people doing it for the partners and customers they cared about. And seriously, if somebody that I have never heard about sends me email, they can just send me authenticated spam, in doubt via hacked accounts.

I think Email is just going to stay around with smaller and larger service providers and organizations large enough having their own people (like you) caring for it. Before, with physical mail, you also had people delivering it internally or externally. It is really not too much to ask to have a competent email admin somewhere.

New cars are still being made. Sure, some manufacturers may not survive, but the market is not going away. Your claim remains nonsense.

No, they will not. That needs retooling, as general purpose hardware is not suitable for crapto-mining, and specialized LLM hardware is not either. They may try this, but a GPU or LLM accelerator chip spends about 3 months (!) in manufacturing. Unless they spend a lot of money in preparation, they will have significant additional time on top of that before they could make crapto-mining chips.

Infinite. Email will stay around. Currently it is replacing postal mail and after that email will be the only "reaches everybody" messaging service in existence. It will NOT go away anytime soon and it may stay around as long as we have a High-Tech civilization.

Look for Wh. If not specified, walk away.

Or almost none. Much lower fire risk, much longer lifetimes, just a bit more heavy (not that much in a power-bank actually). When I looked last week, the only one I found was a 100Wh class one that I already have. But 5...20Wh? Total failure.

Just wait.

Did they submit? I think not. They just paid off the complainants. And the condition of the settlement likely does not contain any admission of guilt.

Indeed. And it was probably really cheap (in comparison) to buy the victims off and prevent any real punishments for those responsible.

Yeah, Musk probably asked for it to be implemented as a favor for his orange buddy. Should have kept it private.

This is why this crap continues. Nobody ever gets punished. Instead the ones harmed get bought off if they manage to be loud enough. Repulsive.

My pretty old Phenom II firewall / fileserver has 32GB of RAM in it. Was cheap at that time and I needed it for a project. My old and my new gaming PC also have 32GB. And my 2 spare mainboards also have it. Too much effort to make a profit selling these, but foresight pays off.

"High quality AI slop"? WTF is that?

Dude. That is nonsense. The end of the PC market is just a bullshit prediction that has been around for 30 years or longer. Never panned out, will not pan out this time. The replacement needs alone are enough to keep things going.

Yep. They will not build new fabs for that. When the bubble busts, even NVIDIA could go bankrupt because they may well not be able to adjust fast enough.