I’m having a great time with it. My wife and I are going through it together. Local multiplayer works great.

Having played various Mario games starting with NES I really enjoy the side-scrolling retro feel.

I’m running Windows ARM just fine with parallels on my M1 MBP. Haven’t had any issues, even weird legacy software that needs serial drivers works fine. MS did a great job with the ARM version of Windows.

Not normal. But also not a problem. You couldn’t sleep, needed something to occupy yourself.

Wireguard is just a VPN, it can’t magically bypass any firewall or network ACLs. If you have access to change those rules then it would be the same as any other network.

I know we all love to shit on Elon, but read the article:

Lawyers for Al-Sadhan updated their claim last week to include new allegations about how Twitter, under the leadership of then-chief executive Jack Dorsey, willfully ignored or had knowledge of the Saudi government’s campaign to ferret out critics

Your expectations around price are unrealistic unfortunately.

And you can use a terminal with stock Android. Although you’ll probably need to root it to do anything useful.

Personally I feel it’s worth it. If you stick with a name brand like Samsung you will get a long life out of it. The loading times are noticeably faster on SSDs.