stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

The zone has become dangerous

I have both and I use both.

The big benefit from mullvad is that you can get anonymous much easier, it’s easier to ditch an account and it’s harder for you to screw it up. People get mad about proton turning over metadata to authorities or suspending account access but they’re required to do that by law if they can identify the accounts. The structure of what proton offers requires that they have some way of verifying who a user is, so if you’re okay with being able to be identified if someone really tries (or doesn’t really try that hard if you give them payment information or something) then proton is fine for you.

Air is a good cheap vpn for piracy. If you wanna take the maybe smarter route of using separate services for your own privacy and for piracy that’s what I’d do.

No, also the browser is the thing that gets breached. It would be like bricking up all your windows so no one could break them and get in your house but only having a screen door in front.

Yes technically the browser alone is a “reduced attack surface”, but it’s reduced by .001%.

Switch to 21h2 ltsc iot.

Everyone, make sure to reply to this person instead of just downvoting their comments.

It’s your responsibility to manage their feelings, not their responsibility to use an instance without downvotes, or even turn off downvotes in their own control panel.

What router?

Point Shodan or grey noise or something at your public ip. Find your public ip by disabling your computers vpn, asking google what your public ip is then comparing that to the address shown at your routers wan interface.

Another person said to just update it. Just update it. But before you do:

Look at freshtomato, openwrt, pfsense etc to see if any of the open firmwares support your hardware. You may like them better.

About the best you can do without opening it up, finding a uart and watching is to put a device you control between it and the isp device.

Have you considered confirmation bias?

It’s rambutan season and you saw an ad for rambutans. You haven’t mentioned that seeing the ad was weird so I gotta assume you see other ads they’re just not related to something that you searched for recently or something you recognize as being related to something you searched for recently.