though, I feel like an IQ test is a biased test

IQ as used by worm-brained US citizens daily (that is, to measure intelligence) is pseudoscience

Embrace tradition, return to XMMS

Assuming that you do want to fully self host, my go-to is a postfix+mariadb+postfixadmin+spamassassin+opendkim stack. With rainloop as a webmail if required.

Avoid exim like the plague

For decades there have been a wide variety of shady filehosts that will happily host content with no regard for IP and offer downloading for the same (good for them). They manage to make money by offering "premium" subscriptions that allow to download without having to wait / bandwidth limitation (these days you even have services that try to mutualize such premium accounts between users for a smaller fee, using their proxy to serve their own users). For just as long there have been websites that index those direct filehost links, and make money through either ads or members donations. It's an alternative to torrenting. Gog-games is an example of such an indexing website (there are many, many others). 1fichier is an example of the filehosters I mentioned above (same remark).

To answer your question, the reason they don't go down is they routinely operate in jurisdictions that are hard to act on by LE in the imperial core; they also often pay lip service to DMCA requests by actually removing content after reports, though they'll almost universally make the process complicated, long, and pretty useless (not removing identical files reachable from other links, for example).

I still don't understand why one would install this shitty adware infested distribution when Debian exists (and has basically become just as user-friendly)

They even put ads in the fucking terminal - look at this shit

There is also this one; it's an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser

Jesus, I'm struggling to fill my 24TB already; I have no idea how I'd fill 100TB

I wouldn't trust a manufacturer-installed system to be honest

Given the size of the userbase I doubt they'd invest in developing and adding preinstalled similar adware as their windows OEM systems but you never know

Better order it without OS

Probably emacs, or wine along with dxvk

Oh god, just reading that name, the flashbacks

This is disturbingly accurate

Just wait for 2024, El Niño will fuck our shit up