Obligatory xkcd : https://xkcd.com/1217/

Could also means could not

If you want https it’s gotta be a external DNS record anyway, might as well point to internal ips

Depending on how paranoid your setup is not everything will use the DHCP provided DNS servers

Yeah, that is fair.

In addition to what other people have said, don’t sleep on Intel gpus, they’re great and they have great Linux compatibility. Even as vgpus for VMs.

Get more RAM than you think you need, I know it’s expensive, get more than you need.

I do everything through virtual machines, so I have a Linux gaming virtual machine that gets the GPU passed through to it directly, and I have a Windows gaming virtual machine that gets the same GPU passed through to it. Both work fine, some things work better on one than the other. Anti-cheat is annoying especially in a VM. There’s a ways to get around it, but if you can’t or you don’t want to, you can dual boot the machine directly into Windows. To make that easy simply have a full nvme drive just for Windows or Linux gaming if you want, and then boot directly into it when you need to go bare metal.

That covers all my gaming use cases, so Linux gaming VM most of the time, Windows gaming VM sometimes, and bare metal windows on occasion.

The benefit to using VMs, you can snapshot them easily, you can roll things back, you can limit the damage of bad games or mods you don’t trust, you can have multiple things running on your computer at the same time. If you’re running a game that doesn’t need all of your CPU all of your RAM, they can be doing productive work as VMs, or when your not gaming the GPU can be doing stuff like jellyfin transcoding.

In my production systems, and in my home systems, and in my gaming computers, I turn swap off. There’s no good reason to wear out disc writes. In production systems, I’d rather have something fail hard, then get slower and slower and slower falling behind.

Quite frankly, there’s no good reason to have swap on anymore, memory is huge. Most programs don’t need as much as they use. You can set memory pressure in systemd, telling programs to reduce their usage, and giving them individual hard cutoffs, so something like Prometheus can’t take down your whole system just because it’s got a memory leak.

It’s a fun game!

https://kycnot.me/search?q=sms&amp%3Btype=

For a few pennies you can anonymously pass any sms hurdle.

Not ideal, I realize.

“For this reason we have created Onion Mail, your email encrypted with PGP and your data does not reside on a single server but is distributed over the network. You can use Tor for browse the Hidden website and you can encrypt all your emails with your PGP key.'”

If this type of service appeals to you I recommend you check out https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

There are scenarios where this is reasonable. If cars are parked below housing units. The risk of fire from the electric battery that can’t be controlled, might be too great for their insurance carrier.

Correct. You could use GDPR regulations to have them remove all your information once the account’s gone.

And then over time frame they are required to forget about you.

But they are never ever ever going to forget a phone number, they will call it a security matter and keep it for anti-fraud purposes. I believe that’s allowed.

Basically once your personal information is associated with a online account it is tainted. And if you are worried about your personal information being attached to an account you can no longer use that account because it is in fact tainted forever

Even if you change the phone number they’re going to keep a record of your previous numbers.

You could delete the account.