I was in the same circumstances when I started. But then I asked around which helped me properly configure it.

working on my end

You can find plenty of versions on Demonoid https://www.dnoid.to/. I’ve used them on bare metal and on virtualization.

I just checked my DNS blocked list. Topaz software do download their models from their repositories, but I haven’t come across any issues. About safety, well, its upto your threat model.

Privacy focused frontend of YouTube

We got freetube too, you can always play on mpv

Then, Proton it is

Mullvad or Proton

KVM would be a safe way to test your pirated software. But it downgrades the performance.

WhatsApp was build upon XMPP protocol. You can look into XMPP clients.

Besides that WhatsApp is not the way to communicate anyway. Normies use it because it is put up on their face and considered to be widely acceptable among them, while rhey don’t understand how privacy invading it is.

I started using it on a daily bases since I switched to Linux. The distro I use as daily driver and other large projects have their support team on IRC.

It is much much better than posting on forums. You get instant response.

Its a quote from GOT.

What Is Dead May Never Die

The website you mentioned made me laugh cause it mentions some weird files I never come across.

aHR0cHM6Ly9jcy5yaW4ucnUvZm9ydW0vaW5kZXgucGhw

They think that bullying one user is going to setup an example of what happens when you fuck with them.

Fuck 'em.

It’s not really a hassle to configure your i2p node. I2p network recently went through a DDOS attack. Even during that point of time I had no issue surfing/torrenting.

• if you configure your node correctly, you won’t see much difference in bandwidth.
• i2psnark can be fast.
• but clearnet comes with an issue of tracking.