At that point, you might as well give up the rescue, call everyone back and seal the poor soul inside. 😖

Polyphia is a pretty incredible instrumental band.

https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLU?si=eiTMnGJSydj5TKQc

I’m in the same boat. The recommendations don’t bother me too much, except when it recommends me videos I’ve seen in the recent or distant past. Also, when I watch one video from someone, then come to find out they’re part of some right wing culture and end up getting recommended the right wing rabbit hole videos for a few weeks.

Signal is a great alternative to WhatsApp. Images sent aren’t going to be full quality and will go through some compression of course, but the final sent picture is still going to be leaps and bounds over the garbage that WhatsApp sends. When going through old pictures on my camera roll, I can instantly tell what was sent/saved over WhatsApp compared to Signal due to just how pixelated it gets.

Can you expand on what you’re looking for exactly? Most consumer routers will let you customize the subnet range (192.168…).

I don’t have anything to add, but +1.

A few useful web apps I’ve found are duolingo and Uber, which have native notifications on iOS without needing to install an app.