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Happy Fastmail user here. Has a lot of extra features.

Having been in a similar place around the same age, the things that helped me were: confiding in friends if you can, a therapist, finding the right medicine, and working on making things better one small, manageable step at a time.

Regarding medicine I know there are lots of stereotypes about what taking medicine to help with mental health issues is like, but I urge you not to write it off nor to give up if one medication doesn't work for you. It's a process, and one you need to work with a doctor with to find the right fit for you. Also, medicine won't magically fix everything on its own, it's just a little bit of help on the road to finding a complete solution.

Ultimately there are lots of good recommendations here. What works for you is going to be unique, and it's something you'll have the best luck with if you get some help.

In my area it's at least 10 to 1 in terms of actual nodes vs nodes that are uplinked to show up on meshmap. I was out of range of the mesh in the town next door until just a couple weeks ago, still no idea where the node is that is letting me reach into town actually is. Until then get another one and take it hiking with you and a friend, they're surprisingly useful on their own and you also might see others.

Plus, if you build it and put your node on the map it might inspire others.

Impossible to say, could be the app is doing something funky, could be iOS, could be lotta things.

I will note, my preferred solution is to do none of the above, and I only do split DNS for one particular service. I much prefer just using an always on Wireguard VPN that is set to only route traffic to my internal subnets and to use my internal DNS server. Then I just use internal names. Wireguard basically runs at line rate on my setup, so half the time I don't even turn it off at home. This also gives you the option to use DNS ad blocking (eg adguard) on the go.

Hmm, caching has never caused problems with split DNS for me, but it's really hard to debug what was going on with your setup. Split DNS is really common and is the preferred way to solve this, so most browsers have logic to handle it. You might have had something misconfigured, but unfortunately it's really hard to diagnose.

AKA, split DNS. Doing it this way is a bit cleaner than hairpin NAT as mentioned in other comments, but both options work fine in a home network.

I mean the original lawsuit was for aggressively bundling Internet Explorer and kneecapping other browsers. Which sure sounds a lot like a minor variation on what they've been doing with Edge and Bing for a while now, without consequences. Antitrust enforcement is not something I have a lot of confidence in for the foreseeable future.

Hardware backdoors are also possible in the silicon, and are probably some of the most dangerous. Fortunately also probably some of the most sophisticated and difficult to introduce.

Not fully, there are still places a backdoor could be hidden (and that's disregarding the possibility of backdoors in OpenWRT, which just recently fended off its own supply chain attack), but I'd sure trust it more.

The thing to keep in mind is that the more sophisticated and difficult to detect a backdoor is, the more valuable it is. And therefore, the less likely it is to ever be used against a normal person. So getting rid of blatantly buggy and insecure software, which TP-Link unfortunately has a bit of a reputation for, goes a long way. And not to pick on TP-Link, evidence suggests many/most home routers are riddled with vulnerabilities.

The message you're reading applies to the checkbox above for encryption, not the preferences url. The preferences key only needs to be set if you want to encrypt the configuration URL, it doesn't affect what OP wants to do.

My memory is a bit fuzzy because I switched to Searxng after playing with Whoogle briefly, but I thought Whoogle stored preferences in a cookie or something similar; the preferences URL is for when you want to transfer the preferences for your current machine to another. So OP is misunderstanding what it's for.

OP: if your preferences aren't sticking, are you maybe blocking cookies entirely or something? I'm pretty sure you shouldn't need to do anything with the preferences URL for your preferences to stick if everything is set up correctly, it's only for transferring your preferences to another machine.

Taskwarrior, tried lots and lots of ones but always come back to Taskwarrior. It just works the way my brain does, and has tons of features that I actually use because they are intuitive and easy to remember how to.