He does not really intend to speak for the people in the way a lawyer or other representative speaks for you, works in your favor, towards your good.
He intends to replace your voice, but pursuing his own goals. And when he has spoken, then nobody else needs to speak anymore. It is sufficiently spoken.
Thanks to Microsoft's legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.
I like the second metaphor:
The whole neighborhood is going to hear you swearing and shouting 🤬
On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.
So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.
The PC was new. There were only Intels in PCs. Linux was made for the PC.
Backstory: Prof. Tanenbaum was teaching operating systems. His example was MINIX (his own academic example). This motivated one student to try to make a new operating system for PCs, doing some things like the professor, and other things quite differently. This student knew the specifics of the Intels and used them good for performance etc.
Without Intel processors, Linux wouldn't have been possible in the first place.
But today we have good processors from many different manufacturers. The Linux community must, and can, stay alive even without the support of one major player.
So there are your power whores. TDP 4 x 115 W. But they are old and very poor....
my load average is less than 1
... because nobody ever comes to visit them. Kindly give them the boot.
my knowledge of desktop technology
No worries. You don't need to go that far :) At least don't touch things that have "Gaming" as their firstname. Just look for some (nearly) modern CPU(s) because they are so much more power efficient, and spend some hours at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/
An example from the other end: my current server runs an Intel G4560T (35W). My next server will get 1 or 2 Ryzen 5825U's (15W each).
He does not really intend to speak for the people in the way a lawyer or other representative speaks for you, works in your favor, towards your good.
He intends to replace your voice, but pursuing his own goals. And when he has spoken, then nobody else needs to speak anymore. It is sufficiently spoken.