NonDollarCurrency

I use a beelink nuc, put on Linux and just connect it via HDMI to my tv, this way I have no real restrictions and I can keep it up to date easily.

Yep, after you realize the majority of the stuff you can buy of Amazon is mass produced trash with zero quality. It was easy to remove.

Great work! Enjoy!

If you know how to use docker look up gluetun, it basically allows you to tunnel everything through the VPN and still access everything locally.

I do this exact thing and after a year or so of running my invidious instance locally I'm not banned and never had any issues and I use it about 5 hours per day give or take. Hope this helps.

Looks like revolut works in Australia but based on their help page

"maximum of 20new virtual cards every 30 days"

Unless you need to burn through virtual cards like nobody's business this would be more than enough, all your bank would see is you sending money to revolut so all those data points on what you spend money on in the banking apps won't work anymore.

Go to ipleak.net and activate the torrent check, paste the magnet link into your torrent app while on VPN and it will tell you what IP address it detects, if it's not the same as your regular ISP then you can verify that it's using your VPN and not your standard internet connection.

If it were up to me, the first boot I would make sure theres no internet access either via Ethernet or wifi that ensures the computer cannot phone home to its mothership. From there either reinstall windows fresh or straight to Linux if you want to avoid spyware.

Weak active directory password auditing. Going to be great fun for service desk once the forced password change occurs.

At work, setting up windows server auditing in a way that doesn't nuke the event viewer with millions of security entires. At home working on upgrading my proxmox.