I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

Is it sufficient to set the Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict” (which claims to block cross-site cookies in all windows), or is there something else you have to do?

I’ll keep using Windows as long as programs like Open Shell and OSSU are able to deal with the bullshit. But if there comes a day when they no longer work…well, Linux awaits.

Privacy isn’t dead, but it will be soon because those of us who seriously care about it are the 0.001%.

The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.

Thank goodness for Firefox. Google is really doing their best to make the Internet unusable.

And you’d better believe that they’ll have twice-a-year price hikes, Netflix-style.

“You wouldn’t download a car.”

“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”

Very cool! I love stuff like this.