They are both owned by United Internet.

You can try mail.com or gmx.com. They didn’t require a phone when I signed up.

Any IoT type devices should be on their own network where internet access is by whitelist only. They should only have access to what they need to function and nothing more. Ideally, they should all be used with self hosted services so internet access is not needed.

At least the AI hasn’t figured out a way to install browser toolbars yet.

There are a number of videos online of escalators breaking and going down at high speed.

I probably used a couple of those on some of my old sites.

Some games stay full of bugs until the modders step in and fix it themselves.

Save your money for the independent creators that actually deserve it. The big corporations don’t deserve a single cent.

There are a number of good FOSS options like OPNsense, OpenWrt, and IPFire. That article looks like an ad for some commercial software.

Mobile games usually aren’t controllable with a keyboard and mouse. Being able to run them doesn’t do much good if you can’t control them. Most of the games aren’t even worth playing. They are infested with micro transactions, which are much worse than ads.

Suspend the PC instead of shutting it down. It will use almost no power and wake up in a couple of seconds. Whatever you left open will still be running.

Bluray drives have been working great in Linux for a long time. You can use xorriso or growisofs to burn disks from the CLI.

Just keep in mind that burned disks are not reliable for long term storage. Cheap disks burned at high speed can degrade within a few years.

There are lists of VPN and tor IPs that can be used for blocking. That will work for commercial VPN services, but not self hosted VPNs.

High powered lasers will burn out camera sensors. They can do it from a significant distance too.

It’s time to go back to gopher. Bots have ruined the web.

Modern operating systems don’t use the MAC address for SLAAC. They generate a completely random address. You can choose a stable address or a temporary one that will change frequently for more privacy. You can also use both, IPv6 allows multiple addresses on one device.

SLAAC won’t work with a smaller subnet. Static addressing is not an option since your /64 is going to be dynamically assigned. That leaves DHCPv6, which won’t work with any android devices or chromebooks.

It would be best to just run IPv6 on one network if you can’t at least get a /60.

An IPv6 subnet must be /64. Anything else breaks stuff. If you want a separate network for guests or IoT devices, a single /64 won’t be enough because it can’t be divided up any smaller.

You need to find out if your ISP supports prefix delegation. A /64 will only give you one subnet. An ISP should supply a /56 if your router requests it. There are some bad ISPs out there that won’t though.

Firefox supports DNS over HTTPS. Enabling it will bypass the operating systems DNS. You can set a custom server that has ad blocking.