Same. But I opened a Proton Mail and forwarded all my emails there. Now I am slowly (when bored) updating all my services to the new email. You can do it. Step by step over many years. But start now

I annoy my weeb friends by asking silly questions about their “cool Chinese cartoons”

Nah man they can quote Anime so they get instant citizenship.

Let them discover how taxes, insurance and liabilities work.

I use Jellyfin and VPN into my home network to stream on the go.

still feels a little bit like the old internet.

Yes! I miss it.

Commercial VPNs are too inconvenient and saturated these days. It is not 2010 anymore. Every commercial VPN is leveraged by scrapers and other bots. If you use them, expect to face captchas. For the same price as a commercial VPN provider I rent a VPS and run OpenVPN on it. Personal, private, dedicated IPv4.

You are all nerds, act like it.

I do not belive it feasible to police personal consumer WAPs or force mac address filtering on them. Perhaps they will block the mac addresses on govt APs.