You might be able to use the element zapper in uBlock Origin to remove the popup and overlay.

They have a 30 day refund policy, assuming you don’t pay with cash.

Hibernate is even better with a fast SSD.

Generally no with a reputable email host.

Yep, you can register a domain through a company like namecheap or cloudflare. It’s about $10 a year.

Then you just need an email service that supports custom domains, mailbox.org is a good one. Change your DNS records on your domain control panel to point to the servers given to you by your email service, and that’s it.

With several comments now showing surprise about this, is sleep mode or hibernation not common knowledge?? Windows and every Linux distro I’ve tried has sleep mode enabled by default.

Most people use sleep or hibernate, still uses very little power (none in hibernate) but you don’t have to open all your stuff every time.

Email is already federated and can be end to end encrypted with various methods.

Yeah I get them confused constantly hah.

At least with your own domain name and IMAP, changing email providers is pretty quick and easy.

I just do what is easy for me, some things are not worth the hassle of switching to a privacy focused alternative.

For example replacing google drive with Syncthing was really easy for my use cases. Gmail was easy with my own domain and a good email service.

Other things like facebook/reddit, banking, telegram, discord, etc… I don’t worry about it because the hassle factor is extreme.

Woops I think I was thinking of mailbox.org who does support domains.

Whatever you choose, remember that ease of migration is important. So for email buy your own domain name and use a service like mailbox.org that allows custom domains and full IMAP access.

Do you use ZFS? It uses half your RAM for cache by default, which matches with 2GB used by user apps + 16GB = 18GB total.

That is one wall of text.

It is, I’ve been auto updating it for almost 2 years. Just needs a quick fix every now and then.

Obviously make sure your backups are working properly.

Do you need them imported into browser? There’s not much downside to having them just in a bookmarks app independent of the browser, and the upside is you can freely switch browsers.

Amcrest model with an SD card slot. Plug into the Ethernet jack to configure it first, but after that it just needs power and thats it.

Its pretty likely to be the case, using tor makes you stand out significantly.

Just firefox with ublock origin.

It hides details on your traffic from your ISP, that’s about it.

Your ISP can really only see the domain names you visit, as HTTPS encrypts the other info like the path and actual content.