it tries to check which instances are offline, to only redirect you to working ones. reddit can be redirected to libreddit/redlib, which makes reddit unable to track you, and these frontends are also much lighter on resources (ram, cpu, network traffic, cognitive load)

but I do know that it isn’t wired and thanks to that it is harder to locate me probably

that does not matter if the subscription is on your name (and address)

you are, though. your personal information (like usage data) is going through them

maybe this would fix spotlight: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs/blob/public/windows/configuration/windows-spotlight/index.md

feature wise I believe the latest iot ltsc edition is based on the last version of windows 10

what features does it miss? it is perfectly capable of running firefox, steamd and games, and whatever else.
it does not have that crap microsoft store, that’s it. but if you really need it, you can install it and then it’s there.

because the game itself wants to load the steamapi program library and connect to the steam client. but there is no encryption or other heavy protection involved. grab a steamemu (like the famous goldberg emu), install it for the game (basically copy/replace a file) and done

a few weeks ago I have seen watchdogs legion in a few streams an liked it. Recently it had a sale (maybe now again) but saw that it uses denuvo, the ubisoft launcher and that it needs a ubisoft account. no thank you. I’ll rather pirate it and be reassured that it’ll have less malware in it

I can’t find the plugin I first discovered this with, but this basically demonstrates it: https://github.com/notjosh/yt-dlp-GlobalCyclingNetworkPlusDRMWorkaround

wiki article on plugins: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Plugins

they have a plugin system. afaik drm breaking features could ve kept in a plugin they dont have to touch

I2P has a mechanism where if you can’t open a port, another I2P router can help with NAT hole punching so that you can establish a connection.

In practice this means I2P users can be equally well connected regardless of being able to open a port.

But, unfortunately I2P is very slow. But maybe it’s just because there’s few people running routers, on slow networks?
In any case, it would be beneficial to have it easily accessible to everyone, so that copyright holders can go pound sand.

Edit: When you couldn’t open ports for I2P, the I2P router will have the “Network: Firewalled” status. This is the description of this status on the router dashboard:

Firewalled: Your UDP port appears to be firewalled. As the firewall detection methods are not 100% reliable, this may occasionally be displayed in error. However, if it appears consistently, you should check whether both your external and internal firewalls are open for your port. I2P will work fine when firewalled, there is no reason for concern. When firewalled, the router uses “introducers” to relay inbound connections. However, you will get more participating traffic and help the network if you open your firewall. If you think you have already done so, remember that you may have both a hardware and a software firewall, or be behind an additional, institutional firewall you cannot control. Also, some routers cannot correctly forward both TCP and UDP on a single port, or may have other limitations or bugs that prevent them from passing traffic through to I2P.

your ISP can still be blocking certain ports

that’s no problem here because bittorrent can run on any port. qbittorrent randomizes it at install

and for downloading too when no one else has forwarded a port in the swarm

do you have a port open for the torrent client? also, you are speaking of torrents that otherwise have peers, right?

on windows all terminals are cursed

if that’s the case, that feature seems to work rather poorly

the spying, yes, if you make sure and apply a per-process whitelisting firewall on the system.

the biasing, no, that’s in the model.

have you just heard that it is possible (it is, technically), or did you also try it in practice? did you check the hardware requirements?

oh, sorry, you’re right

how the fuck do you run an email provider without storing anything on disk, first of all?

next point is mullvad is ready to close shop if that’s what they need to do after a raid. but of you’re storing people’s data for their request basically, like Proton, you can’t just do that because everyone will be mad for losing their data and access to the email service.

finally, Proton does provide a way to use their services in secret, as they run their onion site. login over Tor, done. but probably also create the account over Tor, and never log in through clearnet with that account

sure, they must have shut down all services instead, that would have been the real solution!!