Novice homelaber here, is this just a case of apt update & upgrade or is there different commands for security and kernel updates? Also what’s your preferred backup/restore software? Thanks!
It was lobbied for by the likes of google, meta etc as having verified users increases their advertising value - the same way a farmer would provide documents when selling their cattle to increase the value.
You just perfectly described “load shedding”. If you want to live your dream the good news is you could head to somewhere like South Africa right now. If you wanted to sprinkle in some drone strikes there’s also lots of other countries you could get a holiday home in to experience them too.