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and anonymizes the ip address.

The hell it does, it's the exit node's IP address, nothing anonymous about that.... and that's the problem, they know it's a Tor exit node so they'll give you extra shit for it.

Beats u.solicited dick pics I guess.

PRTFM

If you’re going to be a scumbag, you should at least try to distance yourself from it.

Guess you'd have to be a smart scumbag too...

If you own your own domain the you can use a paid tier of a service like Proton or Tuta where the emal is you@yourdomain.tld and the backend is actually them, so you don't need to selfhost.

SimpleLogin lets you create email aliases, kind of in between self-hosting and using a provider.

Tuta's nice (Germany), the only think Proton (Switzerland) as over it - for me - is an .onion site, although they leak a lot of links onto clearweb. I've heard of Fastmail but haven't tried it.

Java++

True... i compile mine as well.

Linux does have proprietary blobs, Canonical has signed some NDAs, so not that far off from Android (which is linux-based and certainly has proprietary firmware).

'Cos capitalism.

looking at you qt-webengine and firefox

You do know gentoo has binary versions of the bigger packages, like LibreOffice and browsers like Firefox, right? Right?

Try Slackware.