I use firefox nightly. I don't mind the telemetry going to firefox. I know it's a bad thing... But still, if it helps them it's fine.
But performance wise, it's not bad. It's good enough. And with extension support rolling out soon, firefox might be really good.
God this is the answer I wanted. I could never put it all into words like you did. This answer, I'm stealing it.
Did you check whether the new IP assigned are any different. Once it happened that my old ISP had ip range 192.168.0.x. but the new ISP had ip range of 192.168.1.x
This made my machine not accessible.
The average user :
Ooh golly.... what will I ever do... Continues using Facebook
Yeah. I don't think you can. But I really like this feature from Google search. I currently run my own instance of Whoogle. Neither does whoogle have a good way to show these widgets
I use a self hosted instance of Whoogle. It threw up an error a few days back. Got stuck in Google captcha(probably an IP issue). Now it has reset and it is smooth sailing.
Yeah, it is simply Google results, but I think it's fine...
Vaultwarden. And take regular back ups. I don't trust my passwords to be safe anywhere other than my own servers. The chances of my server being hacked is very less.