Data hoarders/pirates are the reason “internet never forgets”. Who do you think retains those obscure pics/memes/videos?

You can’t change your IP with your own VPN server, you have to go through a third party VPN or proxy

I run PiHole on mine

I’ll quit YouTube before I watch ads.

Long time ago, already downloading it

I think what you’re doing is fine, in fact, it’s one of the Microsoft recommended methods of doing it.

Not really, if it’s on TCP 443 it will look no different than a typical HTTPS traffic.

What are you trying to accomplish? Hide/anonymize your Internet/torrenting activity? Or access your LAN devices from the Internet? Because those are two different use cases for VPN. One requires paying a third party provider, the other - hosting a VPN server on your network.

What if VPN traffic is on a non-standard port?

Not cool, bro, it’s against the pirate code to cheat at multiplayer video games.

Site is dead

I use ecobee and block it from the Internet. Works great with Home Assistant via Homekit.

You’re comparing apples and oranges, reverse proxy and VPN serve two different purposes.

Microsoft is shoving Teams down everyone’s throats harder than, I don’t know what. Teams is just awful, it’s slow, clunky, and a piece of shit that nobody asked for.

None of my mine come as PDF attachments, it’s always “click here to see your statement” which goes through the login process to the company’s portal. I get it, they think they’re doing it for security. But email is no less secure than paper mail and they send paper statements in regular mail, so why not email?

Yeah, but you have to log in to the company’s portal and click through their menus to get the PDFs. I wish eBill/eStatements would mean sending them over email, that would be easy to set up an automated way to grab them and file them.

Sending me an email notice that eBill is available is NOT useful at all, it’s only a little more convenient than paper bills

legitimate (non spam) bulk email

I don’t think there’s such a thing, all bulk emails is spam to me as a user.

None.

Have a good backup strategy and nuke the OS/restore data from backup when needed.

I wouldn’t trust any antivirus to clean everything properly after my machine has been infected.

Any guides/resources on how to get started on that? I have backups and could probably get my stuff up and running after some tinkering but I love the idea of some script I can just run on a fresh environment that would bring all my containers up and restore all the data.

Yeah, I’d rather not go down that rabbit hole, it’s too much for what I need. I just want to be able to search for torrents easier and add them with one click, I don’t need the whole automation stack.