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A 16 year old can be licenced to drive a car which is a potentially deadly killing machine.
A 17 year old can join the US Military today, use firearms, fight and die for their country and if needed; kill their own countrymen if politicians deem some citizens are a threat.
An 18 year old can vote and determine who should run the country then they go back to watching TickTok 24/7.
A 17 year old cannot have a beer.
There is something wrong with all of that, today driving a car, voting and entering the military should all be the age that is required to legally buy a beer.
Since then, I run my web and email servers on an old laptop in my home and the Internet POP is a $3.50 VM plus $1 for a static IP, at AWS Lightsail. This works for me but if I needed to connect a disparate office and devices together I might look at Tailscale or one of these packaged solutions, or maybe not.
That is why anyone stating the National Guard is a standin for "well armed militia" is wrong..."a reserve force of the US Military" is not representative of the people; it is a protector of whomever is in power at any moment in the US.
https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcrip...