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Systemd won't make anything slower once the system is booted up, it's barely doing anything.

Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn't blocked yt-dlp and others already.

Cons are that google gets more data and you rely on a third party that's notorious for changing up their service offerings on short notice.

Japan's maglev reached 603km/h. Is this really a record?

this is the only acceptable answer.

Google especially is working on multimodal models that do both language and image, audio, etc understanding in the same model. Their latest work, PaLM-E, demonstrates that learning in one domain (eg images) can indirectly benefit the model's performance in other domains (eg text) without additional training in the other domain.

File your patents...but which ones are selling?

highly doubtful

Yep, this sort of stuff happens and is extremely annoying. Libvirtd will do it for VM networking by default too.

The solution at the intersection of easy to implement and reliable is to just use nftables instead of iptables. Then, the extra rules automatically added by tools are usually much more predictable and easier to integrate with your own rules. Briefly, if nftables is enabled, most tools that mess with the firewall will create a new table inside of nftables with a lower-than-default priority, so that if you have your own custom table set up, the new rules won't interfere with it. (That being said, it is possible that your higher-priority table will cause the automatically added rules not to behave as intended, in which case you may need to add more rules to your manually added table. But manual rules breaking automatic ones is better than automatic rules breaking manual ones imo).

Whonix is often a better choice, it has IMO the strongest protection against leaking data out via clearnet and really forces everything through tor. Theoretically, even malware on the whonix workstation VM can't figure out your IP address.

The same way C programmers do: Download the source code into a local folder and include it directly from there. Then you only update it when you explicitly want to.

You can also use npm with a package.json which requests a specific version, that way it won't update automatically.

Final option, which doesn't work for all packages, is to install the corresponding node-* package from apt, because the debian developers do ship a number of frequently used node packages in the repositories. Eg, apt install node-is-wsl

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