Yeah my TV will never get internet access again. Using my computer with my TV as a screen is way better.

I have a couple of external USB drives I bought on sale I backup my NAS to once a week. It'll protect against drive failure at least. Almost got hit by ransomware a while back so I don't keep anything on there without some backup.

I've tried it. I like the idea of Tor for torrents, you don't need a VPN to torrent. But found the speeds to be really bad and the content was a fraction of the clearnet trackers. Might check it out again though it's been a while.

Yes me too. As bad as humanity seems sometimes, always good to remind yourself of the kindness from the likes of seeders in OP.

Daily mail does it as well. Cancer. But not hard to circumvent with Firefox and some extensions.

In other news rain is wet. Damn the legal system is so inept and corrupt. This has been clear for what, like 20 years now. Should have been deemed illegal all along. For profit companies will always seek market domination to maximize profits, always have and always will. It's the legal system & authorities job to regulate so it doesn't happen and take swift action when it does.

They should also break up Google's stranglehold on the browser market but I guess that'll take another decade or two at least as well. Sadly meanwhile this ruling could lead to Mozilla losing its main funding if Google can't keep paying to be default search engine which could lead to even less choice in the browser space.