If you get an Android TV you can modify it to be ad-free and run pretty much every app you need. Sony TVs use Android TV

The same way most people do. By buying and outdated iPhone

Do you have o2 DSL, o2 fiber, or o2 cable/coax Internet? O2 cable does not have a public IPV4 address by default, you need to request one from customer service.

Iptorrents for most English stuff, and subsplease for Japanese Anime

I dualboot Linux and hackintosh, mostly for Affinity and Fusion360

Onshape and Fusion360 both have tons of great tutorials available, and they are completely free for non-commercial use. There is a reason those are used by almost everyone in the 3d printing community.

Which is completely fine. Expecting the driver to go out of his way to pick up your package, and do it completely for free, is unreasonable

Was, das habe ich noch nie gehört? Ich habe bei der Sparkasse, Commerzbank und Santander ein Girokonto, keine davon verlangt Gebühren fürs Geld abheben bei Automaten der eigenen Bank. Bei der Commerzbank und Santander kann ich sogar 3 mal im Monat kostenlos bei Automaten einer fremden Bank abheben.

Außerdem kannst du kostenlos Geld abheben, wenn du im Supermarkt per Gieokarte (aber nicht Kreditkarte) zahlst

It runs all the time and launches during boot. A ring0 anticheat that only runs while the game is running would be even more pointless

It’s not that hard. I use such a password for my phone

There are sadly no worthy FOSS alternatives, at least for real work. But for creating memes gimp would be plenty

except that manufacturers account for that and calibrate such that what you think are 0 and 100% are actually closer to 20 and 80% respectively.

It’s actually the other way around. A safe cutoff voltage to prevent battery degradation is about 4.2V, but most modern phones charge until 4.45V, so they can advertise a bigger battery capacity at the cost of long term battery health. Your phone essentially charges itself to more than 100%

Yeah, if I were Microsoft I would implement spyware in a way that is least intrusive to the user experience. Prioritizing the telemetry data using QoS would only incentivize users to find ways to disable the telemetry, while providing no benefit to Microsoft. What’s the use for them receiving the telemetry data slightly faster, it’s much more important to them that it arrives at all

Do you want your ISP to be able to spy on your private pictures when uploading them to your self-hosted server? End-to-end encryption is a no-brainer every time you transmit private data online

Trying to upload high resolution photos (like the 200mp photos taken with my s23 ultra) completely crashes photoprism for me until I stop the docker container and manually delete the images. That makes it unusable for me

and sometimes I sail the high seas

Yeah, but it’s useless for that. If you pirate from Usenet or one click hosters you don’t need a VPN, and if you use torrents or other peer to peer protocols you need port forwarding, which NordVPN doesn’t support

but the service for what it is is pretty good

I disagree. Most people wouldn’t need it at all, and for most people that would actually need it it’s useless due to not supporting port forwarding

Paid torrent trackers don’t really exist as far as I know, that’s only really a thing on Usenet. The most common way to get into invite-only private trackers is through recruitment threads on other trackers, so if you aren’t already a member of at least 1 private tracker it’s hard to get into the scene to be honest. There are a few private trackers with open signups, or an ability to apply for an account and get manually approved, but those are pretty rare. The only one I’m currently aware of having open signups is pornolab, and as the name suggests that is a tracker dedicated to porn only. Another one that is very easy to get into is IPTorrents. It’s invite-only, but they are giving so many invites to members that there are lots of people that will give you an invite if you just ask nicely

Stop using bad trackers and it won’t happen

I personally use Torguard. It’s pretty cheap, especially on sale, supports port forwarding, is fast enough to saturate my internet connection, and supports Wireguard