Yes but it was meant as response to the post, so for the first panel: “69kg instead of lbs” and for the second panel “69 degree Celsius instead of Fahrenheit”
They route your traffic, hence they can see all IP addresses you communicate with. With a reverse lookup you can then usually find out the address too.
Okay, maybe I got the question wrong. If you care about content blocking, then you are right (though I'd prefer self-hosted resolvers like pi-hole or AdGuard Home over third party resolvers).
I like this idea, but I disagree with the last sentence. The improvement in the average quality of life does not come from the capitalist system, but from technological and scientific progress.
iOS because Apple ecosystem is much more convenient and consistent. I do not worry so much about the struggle you mentioned because the EU will fix it (see USB-C, sideoading, more to come)
If you do only web and mail you could consider a web space instead of a VPS. For example Netcup.eu offers packets which include email, Ionos offers one mail account per user account too I think.
Also as you said self hosting emails is quite some pain because Gmail, Microsoft etc blacklist small mail servers rather quickly. Depending on your motivation you could also use Protonmail or mailbox.org as mail provider with your own domain.
Anyway, Debian is a solid choice due to long support times.
Mine was The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap on a Gameboy Advance