I would go with .com for simplicity, sometimes other TLDs will be blocked by spam or DNS filters in my experience.

802.11ac will hit 600-800Mbps easily, and those APs are dirt cheap since it’s old tech.

As an end user it feels bloated and slow, the apps are all over the place and it still doesn’t have voice rooms like discord does.

Also abandoned channels seem to be a huge issue, many of the channels I’m in are on like the 10th version or more and keep creating new ones for some reason, losing the history of the old ones.

The idea is really cool, and it mostly works, it just needs a ton of refinement.

That PC can stream anything basically, it sounds like your browser isn’t properly using hardware acceleration maybe.

Adguard Home supports TLS, HTTPs, QUIC and other stuff natively, in case anyone reading wants to set up a pihole equivalent with less work for encrypted DNS.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Configuration#upstreams

Have backups, follow the 3-2-1 rule.

All drives fail, at any time, and you will eventually lose data if you don’t have good backups in place.

Without a Pihole I guess some kind of packet inspection?

Just the browser dev tools is plenty to figure out everything going on.

Hit F12 for dev tools, go to the network tab and that will show all the network requests being made on that page. You can also use the inspect tool to click on a specific ad and see the code that initiated it.

It’s kind of funny to me that Discord was (at least initially) more receptive to this than Signal was, it’s also strange that signal uses cloudflare at all when their whole thing is privacy.

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.