This coming down the line finally got me off of my incredibly lazy ass and forced me to switch a few months ago. It was easy, and I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner.

The BPI-WIFI6 is currently half price and good value for what you get imo. Not sure on true performance yet as I need to rewire my house but it’s way more reliable than any of my other routers at least.

That would also explain why Aldi in the UK also has these while other stores don’t.

They did. Cheap and reliable

Not tried in a while but it used to just be a case of leaving it disconnected from the net during setup.

Failing that you can still sign up with a throwaway account and convert it to local in the options after installation iirc. It’s not ideal but it’s still something at least.

Also the same, but both ears. I think I’ve had it since I was about 10 after an ear infection and only relatively recently learned not everyone has stupidly high pitched ringing in their ears all the time.

I do this too, but it is addressed in the post and is a problem which has caught me out on occasion:

A surprising amount of forms simply disallow the + symbol and consider anything containing it to be an invalid email. Worse is when a form allows it, but the subsequent login form doesn't and then you're immediately locked out of an account you just created.

The hyphen idea is better, but I'm not sure whether that's too much of a common symbol and would be too restrictive to disallow in a username for this service, and if it's not disallowed then I wonder about the security implications that could cause.