Not even for now. It’s totally the opposite, this very Chat Control vote was to push it forward: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/
Upvote for the post and exposing it publicly, downvote for AMD’s action towards people without datacenters…
If your ability to get inside your house depends on AWS, then either
A dedicated community has been created for this, see https://lemmy.ml/c/librephone (I just saw this community and joined myself)
Depends on your use, just check what your system uses right now. Realistically, your habits on your new system will be somewhat alike to your habits on your old system.
If you fit in 512 Gb SSD before, you may fit still. If you needed 1Tb before, you probably will need it still.
Unless you want to do local LLM inference or run many virtual containers / operating systems, you don’t need too much memory.