I buy stuff from Ebay and Etsy plenty often.

I try to keep everything I care about in one folder that is backed up regularly, so it’s not such a big deal to reinstall the OS.

TBF 0C and 0F are kinda arbitrary values.

This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature

Shadespesre*

Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.

These scripts are usually longer than that and do some checking of which distro you are running before doing something distro-specific.

Some programs monitor the system clock for purposes like this.

But in the case of Steam games, many of your games would work just fine.

I’m thinking about buying an Apple TV because I don’t like the built-in software on my TV, and “big corp that isn’t Google” sounds like a reasonable compromise between privacy and integration with big media providers.

It was already practically instantaneous compared to video encoding, but neat anyway.