Yes, I have that too. You’re not alone.

I use Mull as my daily driver. It works well. It tends to break some sites, so I keep Fennec as a backup.

It might be Mint or an issue with your laptop. I’ve been using Arch for a while and haven’t had major performance issues. Before I used Arch, I used Pop!OS and didn’t have any issues either. What are your laptop specs? Have you already looked into Nvidia Optimus? Have you tried other distros?

It sounds like what you’re looking for is a DNS blocklist. I know NextDNS has a Google blocklist. NextDNS is easy to use and I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend the Kobo. You need an account to activate the device (only needs email and password), but after that, you don’t need to use their services. Side loading books onto it is trivial (it’s officially supported). Connecting it to WiFi is unnecessary after the initial setup. You can’t install a browser onto it, and the built-in browser leaves much to be desired. I would download the books onto a separate device and side load it.

Checkout Quad9 and NextDNS. I use NextDNS. The free tier NextDNS account is more than ample; I’ve never come close to exceeding it.

Have two emails: one for personal and one for school. Since your school offers Office 365, they may also provide an email address. I have two email addresses: my personal email (Protonmail) and the one my school assigned me.

That was my issue. Thank you very much!

Thank You! I changed the port settings and used the “d” flag and it’s working.

I’m excited for spooky seasom this year. I can’t wait to watch the Five Nights At Freddy’s movie.

Password manager like Bitwarden. I’d rather they take care of it for me. The consequences would be too great if I messed it up.

It’s a balance between convenience against privacy and security. The more private and secure you become, the more inconvenient. If something is too inconvenient, people will just work around it: writing passwords on a sticky note because the requirements were too high. It’s impossible to strike the perfect balance. Threat modeling is important. Threat modeling is where you determine what is OK and what isn’t. I have an Instagram account because my girlfriend likes to send me funny videos. I only use it to watch what she sends me, and I have it isolated from the rest of my apps. I could delete it, but my threat model allows it.

Side note: anything cryptography and computing is basically magic.