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I believe there's an addon for Kodi for this. Been a while since I used it though.

You could also just remove chapters from the video files during ripping, or by using something like ffmpeg.

If you're not ready to switch, most of the issues and anti consumer shit with Windows can be managed through a combination of Group Policy, Registry, various settings and configurations menus, and a wee bit of PowerShell.

The instructions to disable this are right fucking there in the article, and the sections OP copied to the description here.

And for completeness: Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

This setting exists on 10 and I've never had it re-enable itself.

To be horribly blunt, attempted suicide by pills is a wonderful way to put yourself through feeling worse than you ever thought possible, a shit ton of throwing up, and then more feeling worse than you thought you could until you eventually survive anyway.

And that's if no one finds you in the long amount of time it would take, calls an ambulance, and you end up getting your stomach pumped and racking up more debt in medical bills while still feeling like shit, and now being placed on suicide watch.

There are incredibly few fool proof ways to commit suicide. Even less that won't cause you to suffer immensely the whole time until it's over. The body instinctively wants to survive despite any of your personal feelings.

As an aside, you should check out the mutual assistance community on lemmy. They may be able to assist you a bit financially to help you improve your situation.

Wasn't most/all of uMatrix functionality folded into uBlock Origin?

Lol, not really. I'm rolling my eyes. It's just more doom and gloom reaction to a legitimately useful piece of technology, which could be just as much benefit to humanity as a detriment.

Plus the idea that the people who worked on this might have even been capable of working on something more "useful" to humanity is complete and utter moon shot speculation, along with the idea that this is mutually exclusive to research and development of "useful" things.

I'll reserve my cynicism for when these actually start trending towards replacing human workforce, like how LLMs are being misused. Most of Boston Dynamics's stuff doesn't have massive effects on the world, it's more specialized use cases.

Because that level of environmental collapse is many lifetimes away, if it's coming at all.

One of the benefits of humans dying out, which everyone seems so sure about, is that as humanity dwindles, so too will the continued damage to the ecosystem.

May not stop it, but would certainly hamper the acceleration of things.

It's still not your hardware, so you can't rely on the data being private to you even if the connection is secure.

Then there's going to be all the politics present with the location of whatever endpoint you connect to, issues of uptime and availability, etc.

It's a matter of the threat model you're concerned about, but this does not fill me with confidence if this is considered a "breakthrough solution". There's nothing quite like a half assed solution to kneecap work on a "proper" one.

Depends on if you're allowed to bring the Pi in at all. Might be safer to just buy what you need "on site". There's a lot more to this than just the technical side.

Whatever you do, just be careful. A lot of places don't play easy with foreigners breaking the law. It can be easy to hide what you're specifically doing over a network, but they don't need to know what you're spefically doing to say "bypassing the filter at all is illegal", "using tor gives us probable cause".

Depending on your situation and how they check things you bring in, it might be better to just load up a/some big hard drive(s) with enough content to carry you through until your next trip outside the filter. Knew someone who was in a similar situation for a long while that would emulate their way through old console game libraries like that.

May be worth looking into how political dissidents can protect themselves. Hidden encrypted containers. Private vps outside the filter that you connect to, doing all your questionable shit on the remote server outside, so the only data transfer is video feed to/from. If hiding what you're doing is needed, steal notes from the people with lives at stake.

So much of this depends on specifics it may not be safe for you to share. Probably worth asking questions in some of the privacy focused communities.

OpenWRT won't hide what you're doing from the network that handles your internet connection. It's just an option for something you could use as a router/wifi AP.