Then you just answered your question yourself…

Brings me back to my previous comment as to why you ask this question. Seems like you’re just here to make a statement rather than post a genuine question.

Really? Why would it be a bad idea to bring a sign to a protest? Can’t think of any reason.

Wrong community mate. This isn’t a place for politics. This is a place for honest questions.

Why do you ask this question here? Do you actually want to know?

No I’m also talking about resolution too. You can tell on 100 inches. On 100 inches a 1080p pixel is more than one millimeter in diameter. You can definitely see that when you sit 3 meters away from the screen. 4k will give you visibly more sharpness. Provided of course that you don’t butcher your movie with terrible bitrate compression.

Depends on your setup. On my 100 inch projector screen you can immediately tell when it’s not 4k. And low bitrates (like Netflix) become especially noticable with rubber banding and loss of sharpness.

Odd. I can immediately tell the difference.

I did an empirical test with friends comparing various bitrates and resolutions of the same source (on a 100 inch projector screen with a good 4k projector). I could guess 100% of the time correctly.

80 gb is not a lot for movies. My average 4K movie is between 60 and 80 gb per movie. If you start encoding and compressing them you start seing compression artifacts and reduction in quality very quickly.

My advice: don’t compress movies if you can. Just get more storage. Storage is relatively cheap these days.

Get something with a good mic. You and your friends will thank me later.

I’ve got the Razer BlackShark V2. Don’t know whether it’s the best but the mic sounds almost like a studio mic. Never had any issues with it.

A VPS is used by thousands of users. There is a good chance somebody else hosts a meta search engine aswell. You’re being anonymised by being one of many. It’s admittedly not as good as using DDG (much larger crowd) but definitely better than selfhosting at home.

You’re correct that it strips out most of it. But time of search, content of search, IP, ISP and location is more than sufficient for tracking you and building a profile.

No. DDG and Mullvad are private search engines as they strip out your trackable metadata and don’t pass on your IP address. If you selfhost your own metasearch engine on your own network you’re not hiding any of that.

TrackerControl

30 days caching is a bad idea in a fast changing internet on hot topics.

It’s not private though unless you host it on a VPS.

Caching search results sounds like a bad idea. The relevance of hot topics on the internet changes really fast.

Nothing new here. I’d recommend checking out PrivacyGuides instead for a more comprehensive and informative list…

Nothing new here. I’d recommend checking out PrivacyGuides instead for a more comprehensive and informative list…

5 usd a month is a lot…

This is normal usage stats. Every app has that. You can opt out and you get asked when launching the app the first time. This isn’t that bad.