No, they directly download the files via torrents on your pc

Crunchbang++ is alive and we’re using it

As the others have said, a Google (search engine) replacement will have the most “privacy returns”. Take a look at whoogle and searx, or if you can mak them switch to another search engine like duckduckgo

I don’t use them for on/off but to set the intensity, I guess I could get one of those manual sliders…

Damn I really needed systemd analyzer to debug stuff! Thanks!

That’s England so no gdpr anyway

Inkplate offers some esp32 powered eink solutions, and someone built an eReader software for it, should be this one

https://github.com/turgu1/EPub-InkPlate

But I have no idea how good it is. If you want to use it offline I suppose you could get any eReader that supports loading stuff via USB, You can manage a kindle library with calibre and turn off wifi after the first setup, for example.

Couple of weeks ago I wanted to change the intensity of the light bulb. I open the hue app and it tells me to download the new app, not allowing me to do anything else. I install the new app and it asks me to register… I still have my bulb at full light :D I’ll either find a compatible open source app or a light bulb that respect my privacy, I got a couple of tplink ones which were cheap and seems to work ok

You can use ublock in advanced mode and replace noscript I think

This is just my personal list

• Ublock origin in advanced mode to block js like matrix did (or in basic mode on mobile/if you don’t want to waste time fixing broke websites)
• Decentraleyes to avoid loading libraries
• Cookies autodelete to you guess it
• Consent O Matic to auto consent gdpr banners
• Link cleaner to clean copied urls from tracking queries
• Redirector to redirect famous websites to their alternative front-ends (YouTube to piped etc)