sorghum

There wasn't even a slap on the wrist in that ruling.

So is it YouTube family or YouTube household?

Either way, probably need to setup site to site VPN and route YouTube traffic through a central location, if you can block geolocation.

Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I'll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.

Already am, but it still pulls results from the companies I want to separate myself from. I'd rather see what it takes/how well it performs to have my own indexer.

Looks like for the hardware requirements for self hosting some of the open source options, I'll be saving up quite a bit for SSDs.

Yeah, I think it's more related to the inherent security settings in librewolf and the sandboxing flatpak does not meshing well, which is fine as that's a great upside for it. It's not a big deal to have a dedicated browser, but I'd rather be able to block most if not all the crap when I do need to use the webcam which is why I avoid Chromium browsers when possible.

I know that my preferred browser (librewolf) does not and doesn't have a native build for OpenSuSE and often has problems with video conferencing in the flatpak. Its the only reason I've kept vanilla firefox installed.

OpenSuSE is German, I'm having to wonder if I need to prepare switching distros in case they have to remove Firefox from their repos. I'll need to research the flatpak to see if it works with webcams for video conferencing.

Hopefully this moves people to view kernel level anti-cheat as malicious and as nefarious as other malware.

This used to be a thing iirc. Then too many advertisers were getting "don't show results from this source" and Google nixed it.

cheap hardware

I thought that's why you bought used lenovo thinkpads.

Yeah, if you really want a taste of Debian desktop, LMDE is probably where I'd start.