You point your main active network interface gateway to a tor gateway or proxy.

Am I doing that editing the privoxy config file with this line?

‘forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .’

I now set up tor for firefox manually using https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Tor-with-Firefox. If the edited privoxy cofig file is the right way to go, didn’t I just double torify?

I see. Thanks

thanks for posting such a detailed answer.

about the different debian versions: I don’t know which one I should try first:

I found debian mac 12.5 netinst https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/ and I’m giving it a try.

Shouldn’t that work, I’ll try one of the live cds https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/

I paste the links to check if I have the right version

Incidentally, the data size difference is so surprising: 0.66 GB (debian mac netinst) against 3.17 GB (debian live). Can I have something in between?

in short, I should install debian gnome or kde

If the Mac has a Retina display

yes, model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"

Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow? I didn’t do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.

makes sense, but I don’t understand why LMDE is marked as 6 when the newest stable debian is 12.5 (same applies to linux mint and ubuntu, now at 24.4) shouldn’t it be LMDE 12 or 12.5?

Linux Mint Edge Edition

is Edge a desktop environment or a system that lets you use other DEs later? I’m partial to xfce.

I thought every DE gets the same kernel patches.

is there really a reason to switch?

just considering my options

that command returns

GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)

thanks

thanks

yup

turns out this was the right answer all along

I was still figuring out the right commands but thanks for your input

thanks for the input

thanks, this worked

then how come I’ve always torrented without editing the router?

I’ve used privoxy, can that be the reason?

I need to use one of these https://github.com/Skyedra/UnspamifyUbuntu not to get an invitation to join ubuntu pro each time I upgrade.

this never happened before. To me this is invasive, but otherwise it has worked well so far.

package ubuntu-advantage-tools is not installed, so not removed.

I can however remove ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon, together with apturl: common and apturl software-properties-gtk.

Should I?