I use Adguard’s public DNS on my router for convenience, no problems at all. In the past I had pi-hole with some lists that in the end, from time to time, broke things.

Ed2k/kad are still kicking, I use mldonkey for that networks

mldonkey for ed2k/kad network and bittorrent

Well I have an old suunto 5 peak, I like the battery, the construction style, navigation routes (for hiking, trail running), I miss something like garmin pay. But now suunto doesn’t have an entry level watch, for this I said coros, polar or garmin. And between these 3, coros because it is focused on runners this brand and I think have better support than polar.

I wear a suunto but if I had to choose between these two, probably I’d pick up a coros for running.

If you need stay on budget, you could look into the coros pace 2/3 or polar pacer for MIPS, for amloled display you have garmin forerunner 165 or amazfit cheetah.

I use duckduckgo. It is Bing but with more privacy. You could try also searx, swisscows, startpage or qwant

Headless server with debian and mldonkey, I search on ed2k/kad network and public trackers for bittorrent. I use plex to stream to my devices.

Perfectly alive with aprox 100k daily users

I compile the source code: git clone, cd mldonkey, ./configure, make, make install

Removed by mod

You still have realvnc lite. It is free, 1 user, 3 machines, less features, but the basics still there.

You could use i2p for torrent it is free and secure, but slow

Nope, just an encrypted layer. I2p wiki

It’s just Germany, the rest of Europe (EU and non-EU) doesn’t actively care about them unless it’s cp.

It’s still my favorite network (using it from more 20 years ago), but for the latest things I use bittorrent and seed to both networks (bittorrent and ed2k/kad) through mldonkey 24/7.

Well you could run these services in your server (only if you have enough spare bandwidth, ram and cpu) to help the comunity to circumvent censorship in some countries, like Russia or Iran. Here you have more information for tor and i2pd.

Tor relay (guard/middle or bridge/snowflake) and i2p node (i2p, i2p+ or i2pd)

You could seed on ed2k/kad networks, just share the folder

Then samsung galaxy a35.

Samsung phones nowadays are one of the best software support on every budget, starting with the A15 4G (~150€) with 5 years to the flagship, S24 ultra with 7 years.