Not exactly “misheard”, but the lyrics to the Minecraft parody of “Dynamite” stuck more strongly in my head than the original.

Literally everything you mentioned has at least had its ban discussed, and most of those have been banned or at least restricted in some part of the world.

I think a 1% chance of permanent health effects manifesting years later is already plenty to get something banned.

DDG works 90% of the time but it does perform worse than Google sometimes

If there are government mandated age verification checks on social media, then even if they’re trivial to bypass, at least it allows parents to stand together with other parents.

Many, if not most, social media sites already have this in the form of a “I assert I’m over 13” button during account creation

250 years is an observed pattern, but is not implied to be the cause

I’ve tried getting Windows XP games to run both in windows 7/10/11 and wine with little success. However, I have gotten them to work in Windows XP virtual machines.

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.