It’ll stop a lot of them, some will slip through though.

Tracking pixels are just a 1x1 pixel ‘image’, the way they work is when your client loads the image URL it sends a requests to the server to do so, and the server logs the request and knows you’ve opened/viewed the email.

They only load if you load images, every email client I’ve used does not load them by default for this reason.

You can also run an DNS adblocker like Adguard Home or PiHole and that will block a lot of the domains commonly used for tracking pixel images.

Wired earbuds are what I use, with a cheap USB-C to 3.5mm adapter I leave permanently on the cable.

Not if your BT DAC supports lossless codecs.

For DNS? It’s an alternative for that, but not for the huge amount of other services Cloudflare provides.

Windows sandbox is easy.

I’ve never had spam issues with catchall, and it saves a ton of time vs having to go create aliases constantly.

Its a setting on the mail server/provider.

I’ve never had issues with it, been using it for years.

I use a custom domain with catch-all enabled.

No, because it still stops everyone else from reading your messages.

OpenWRT on a Linksys router, with adguard home for DNS blocking.

I used to run OPNSense on some older x86 hardware, but wanted to move to something simpler and less power hungry.

The government already has every US citizens number anyways.

Why not? Its nice to have fun with your website.

Just missing like 90% of the features and UI

Discord is fairly unique, there isn’t really a replacement for it that works well.

Tor creates a ton of connections to all kinds of places, so that might have been the source.

Do you have any apps open in the foreground or background while doing the packet capture? Check with top or htop and make sure all your apps are truly closed.

Amazon, Hetzner, and the others are VPS providers among other services, so seeing connections to those by apps could be fairly normal as they often check for updates or download supporting items to make the app work.

I’m confused now, I thought we were talking about the bit here “let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services”

But either way, you can also install another app that does let you connect to local AI if you want to use that kind of thing.

Couldn’t you just install whatever apps you want for the services you use?

Why is letting you connect to services bad? Choices are always good.

I use Restic for online and Synology active backup for local.

For restic I either restore the backup if I have the space, or if not just mount it and compare, and restore a portion of it.

For active backup since they are bootable images I restore to a VM and test.

Even if you backup locally there can still be bugs or misconfiguration that causes data loss, just gotta test the backups.

With any cloud service or backup software you take a chance, especially if you don’t test your backups.

That’s unfortunate.

Did you test restores before this and they were OK?

I definitely recommend having at least 2 backups, so you have 3 copies of your important data at all times.

It depends a lot on IP reputation, but that can definitely be an issue.

Email is already open and fully distributed.

The fact that most people gravitate to a few large providers isn’t really related to email as a system IMO.

They do that too, because they generate a unique virtual card number each time.

Agreements with payment processors are needed to process payments on platforms like that, so it’s not a feasible thing for a small open source project to pull off IMO.

If you just want limits on virtual cards, some credit cards have that built in already without needing a third party involved, Citi for example.

Nope

They do have the emergency access feature yeah, I’d still put the password in a physical document somewhere though just as a backup.

When I try using the https://<IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_PI_HOLE>/admin/ I get search results to access my router login.

Something is very wrong if you’re getting search results, maybe try a different browser?

Checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it looks like pi.hole is down.

The PiHole website is https://pi-hole.net/ is that what you meant to check?

You can’t check local private domains like pi.hole using a public service.

Password manager such as Bitwarden, you can store your passwords, and sensitive info as notes or attachments. It’s all encrypted client side.

Then you just need to have a note with the master password and instructions on how to access it.

The problem is how do I get my history and everything on desktop and android TV then, does it sync with other apps or my google account or something like that?

TBH I just use youtube.com in my browser (Floorp/Firefox) with uBlock Origin. With SmartTube on my TV.

The alternative front ends or apps don’t seem to support loading my watch history, playlists, or subscriptions, and they don’t sync between my devices even if I manually import stuff. Making usability an absolute nightmare.

There’s also vaultwarden which is a super lightweight single container bitwarden server.

I would just make an IG account if it’s being a large obstacle, you probably don’t have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.

Oof, contacts being leaked is a bad one.

If you’re a casual privacy user, then accepting monero and making accounts with no personal info isn’t really something to be concerned about having.

Instead I would use a well known VPN with audits done that is shown to not hold logs, like Mullvad.