I’ve been using Neo Launcher for a while, no complaints

I personally use Kanary because it seemed better than Privacy Bee and it was cheaper than Optery. Though I do believe Optery is most likely the best overall, Kanary seemed to be the best for the price.

Mullvad

I was using Silence but had issues with the encryption settings

Oh wow I hadn’t heard of Quik! What other protocols does it integrate? Not much info on their repo.

I use Partisan-SMS (PSMS) it’s a fork of QKSMS with optional encryption

wrong sub buddy

Pray that Google enshittifies YouTube enough for any amount of creators to migrate to Peertube

where is the humor?

humor where?

This is the only question that really matters when it comes to these alternatives

Thank you so much for such a detailed answer!

How do the Jewish Torah and Talmud fare? Are there much more authoritative texts for those and the Quran?

Personally I haven’t really changed anything about my entertainment other than how I attain it. Torrented movies, shows, and books, cracked games, and ad+sponsor blocked YT via Piped mean I get all the same entertainment as ever if not more (plus I actually own it forever). The only thing I’ll admit I miss a bit is Reddit.

Why not just let Watchtower do it for you?

Emerald Dialer is FOSS

Bro you’ve already been told on at least one other programmer humor community to stop shilling your mediocre Long Dark rip-off here. Take this to game dev or indie studio / creator communities

Not to be overlooked! This is by far the quickest and easiest way to be as hands-off as possible

Oh yeah I use my setup (along with Jellyseerr) for anime, TV, and movies.

First things first, pull up Trash Guides and set up the *Arr stack – Sonarr for shows, Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, and Prowlarr for indexers/trackers. Then setup transmission+OpenVPN or something similar to torrent behind a VPN. Finally, hook up Jellyfin so you can serve the media.