I would think they might raise those questions before all the permits and hiring and whatnot happen? It's not exactly the kind of thing you just sneak in and do one night.
I'm meant to be getting it this summer when they finish building around here. Very much looking forward to not having that bottleneck at the edge of my local network.
If your employer doesn't pay you then that's a problem in itself. Tips are also known as a gratuity, as in gratitude above the base expected. The attitude in the past few years though is that this is the expected and the way that people are meant to be paid, entirely removing the burden from the employer beyond the legal required minimum.
They represent some of the biggest, most heavy firepower single pieces of equipment out there. Useless as they might be in the modern agility and precision based wars it's pretty on brand for someone who wants to present themselves as some kind of macho strongman.
The purist part of my head wants to define self hosting as something done on your own hardware that no actor external to your net can influence directly, even to the point of requiring a licence check against an outside server is not 'self hosted'.
By that definition it gets a bit dicey with a lot of projects that are at all complex though, so you have to decide your own line.
$50M is a cheap price to sell election integrity for. Little Donnie is asking for (I think it went up to) $400M for his playhouse that was supposed to be privately funded, and there's talk of Felon becoming a personal trillionare with the SpaceX IPO.
Encrypt before send, and if you want to have protection against deletions of the data have a cold backup offline other than during the copy.