I would prioritize a VPN ahead of an ISP. Free Open/Public APs are not uncommon in my area.

If I said you had a beautiful body, would you take of your pants and dance around a little?

Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don’t like what you have to say.

Yes. The relevant metric:

99.55% of posts are on a single instance. That is not “federated” in any meaningful sense.

Ezekiel 23:20

Got me through some hard times.

Genesis 19:31

Ezekiel 23:20

Check permissions on your home folder. Make sure everything is owned by your new username.

I had a separate partition mounted on /home on my old system. I remounted the same partition at /home on the new system, and got the same bootloop issue. The problem was that the old permissions were for 1001:1001, not (newuser):(newuser). Had to log into a TTY and chown (newuser):(newuser) -R /home/(newuser) to get everything working.

You can create a virtual machine, running within your debian install, to serve as your router. It actually works very well.

I used a headless Debian VM as a router with Shorewall to configure iptables. If I had to do it again, I probably would have used an opensense VM.

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I had a problem with my boss’s computer yesterday where Windows decided it didn’t need to load the drivers for one of the two built in USB 3.0 controllers. On boot, only one of the two controllers would work, either the one for the front ports, or the one for the rear ports, completely randomly. It would not load the driver for the other controller until I disabled and reenabled it in the hardware manager.

BIOS recognized a keyboard or mouse in any of the 2.0 or 3.0 ports at POST, but if Windows failed to load the rear 3.0 driver at boot time, it dropped the keyboard and mouse.

Workaround was to swap them to the 2.0 ports. Final solution was upgrading to Linux.

Your proposal is acceptable.

27 years, actually. Specifically, since October 12th, 1998.

I have been looking for a US ISP with the balls to ignore their obligations under the DMCA since the DMCA was implemented.

If the number is excessively multitudinous, feel free to leave out any dial up providers you used back in the late 90s/early 2000s. You can also leave out any ISP that has since merged into another, or gone out of business.

For me, that would leave five names in 27 years, none of which would be a surprise, and all of which issue DMCA letters.

I would love to hear about even one of the many unicorns you’ve engaged over the past quarter century.

I read your entire comment. What I didn’t read is any information on how I can duplicate your experience. I’d like to subscribe to one of these ISPs, if they are available in my area. Is there a reason I can’t know who is providing this superior service?

I would appreciate any advice you might have on a provider who isn’t a scum-sucking sycophant of the copyright industry. I assure you, your experience is the exception, not the rule.

Those letters originate from the rights holders, who have leechers in the swarm, verifying that you are actively uploading data to them. Your ISP doesnt care if you torrent, or who you torrent to. They wont originate a letter unless a rightsholder requires them to.

The rightsholder has your IP address, and the name of the file you sent them. Data for those files was sent to their leechers by your IP address, perhaps not by you, but by some machine operating on your network, or through it.

It is possible that the letter to your ISP included a list of both IP addresses belonging to several of their customers, and filenames sent from all of those customers. It is possible that the ISP sent out letters to each of the individual subscribers, and just attached the full list of files from the original complaint.

Who is your ISP? Or do you just use your neighbor’s connection?

On behalf of whoever is paying for your internet connection, do not torment without a VPN.

If you ignore this advice, be aware that the aformentioned person will get a nastygram in the mail, complete with the exact title of the torment you downloaded. They have no qualms with outing your darkest perversions to the breadwinner(s) in your household.

I’ve found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.

I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard of “Jami” that is supposed to operate in a similar fashion.

AFAIK, yes. Latest release is from March of this year, and they have commits as of a month ago.