vox

i have only YouTube enabled (personalization is good enough that i actually do care about it) and google search (since it also affects google maps) and both are set to the lowest auto delete option

I just treat polkit as "set it and forget" kind of thing and leave it on defaults, I'd rather spend my time on something more important

systemd is more of a set of products and software components branded under a single name rather than a single thing.
systemd itself is rather simple, as most other pieces systemd-* software, like systemd-boot, systemd-networkd and systemd-resolvd. these are usually more stable and less bloated than more popular alternatives

holy hell

AOSP is licensed under Apache 2.0

(if you want to contribute back you must sign a CLA though)

android's at least open source

there's a mod piracy subreddit on reddit, you should probably check it out

my isp doesn't assign me an ipv4 and i have a dynamic ipv6 prefix, I'm hosting stuff over ipv6 just fine with dynamic prefix (i even have a ipv4 proxy set up, but it doesn't see much use), just need to update it like every week in dns records (automatically of course)

yah i forgor about that
but technically you can, but with a self signed certificate only (ehich are less secure; or by asking people to set up the dns manually)
with self signed certs you don't lose encryption, but the client won't be able to make sure that it's connecting to your server specifically

old laptop in you closet is free forever

just don't use one?
host shit on bare ips