There are colloquialisms in Filipino. This is not a normal Filipino-English thing.

screen recording and/or streaming (preferably lighter weight)

VLC can do this. The streaming part might be tricky because it won’t do the networking for you, but it’s easy enough to screen record to a file.

You can get near that level of performance with a small thunderbolt drive.

That’s called a thumb drive and you can do it as long as the computer you are using has the option to boot from USB enabled in BIOS (typically personal machines come with that enabled but machines out in the public often disable it specifically because they don’t want you booting a different OS)

Where does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?

They do want to call me. I had a significant decrease in spam calls after I started doing this instead of my actual number, including calls from companies I’ve definitely never given my number to, as well as straight up scammers.

However, you have a good point about tracking.

I just give them my old landline number that’s been disconnected for years since I just use my cell phone now

Go to book stores and retro game stores. And the library. Some libraries have movies, music, and videogames in addition to books.

I have set up WireGuard manually running on a home server. It’s not that hard to set up IMO but that definitely depends on your experience level.

Other than that I’d second Tailscale which is similar but easier to set up

Backend programming is almost all Linux. I have two computer science degrees and have only ever used Windows for gaming.

I’ve always liked those magnetic levitating globes!

(You can also find magnetic levitating <insert TV show prop here> for a variety of tv shows and video games)

This is why I use CloudFlare. They block the worst and cache for me to reduce the load of the rest. It’s not 100% but it does help.

It means you have to learn a lot very quickly, which is hard.

99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

I would just sit for a minute

I find achievement hunting to be fun, although it’s better if the achievements are interesting

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Coffee and some kind of pastry.

Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.

Virtually at least once a week.

In person, about once a month.