You don't say what else other than gaming you want to do, so it's harder to advise. Still, consider bazzite KDE, easy, stable, relatively close to the bleeding edge without all the cuts, everything you need for gaming in the tin.

As noted elsewhere Syncthing-Fork is still going strong, and a drop-in replacement, it's on F-Droid.

Learn to read code (git gud) /s but it's the only way to be sure (nuke from orbit)

Or, look at the stars...

The original idiocy here is the DMCA, this and the other idiocies practised in its name are consequences. Over time the idiocies build up as case law precedents until new and ever more egregious cases are made, some of which stick (as in throw shit at the wall and see what sticks) and the cycle continues. Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.

Depends on how bright the lights are, and the phase.

An example of why the phrase "Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to" has wisdom.

Discord needs to die in a fire, so much knowledge lost... But their momentum is something awful.

Try whatever ublue floats your boat, it all happens in the background, the power of atomic updates baby, if something breaks, just go back to the previous one...

Just make inconvenient days holidays, few will complain.

Verifiably no logs without court order (I'm guessing canary pages have gone the way of the dodo now, probably boilerplate in the orders, maybe wrong according to the article, perhaps in some jurisdictions) would be awesome. Verified by external audit is about as good as we can get, so proton, tutanota, I think, others muchly appreciated. I think one of them setup their OS in volatile RAM, which is cool, but probably not legally protective.

No, I don't expect you to go to jail for me, but due diligence minimising knowledge will bump you up my list of providers to choose.

One problem here is those that do verify, usually don't allow torrenting ports, so, no ratios for you. Anyone know what the over/under is on lesser tier VPNs that port share vs a VPS (with all its potential, but which country?) vs Usenet? Looking to have a clue when the time comes, knowledge gratefully accepted :)

Who is Liebniz?

Yup, clickbait title to painfully slow media type for the purpose == nope