Polymaker is a Chinese supplier, selling to California residents, while also running ad campaigns through ghost gun content creators aimed at California residents, defining themselves explicitly as a ghost gun ingredient.

If they didn’t want to get caught up in this, they shouldn’t have gotten involved in the illicit arms business. But they wanted to be known as the plastic supplier that is cool with you making ghost guns, and that isn’t going to fly in California.

Plastic suppliers that don’t advertise themselves explicitly as being part of the ghost gun supply chain will be fine.

I think this is more of a compatibility benchmark than something anyone is actually going to do.

WireGuard doesn’t work at all because it is blocked in OP’s country. OP wants an alternative. Dumping all security and encryption is certainly an alternative, but I am certain that this is counter to what OP is trying accomplish, given their initial choice of Tailscale (WireGuard on steroids).

Sure, but they shouldn’t.

It’s not a real ThinkPad if it doesn’t have a keyboard frontlight.

Edit: Downvoting this joke is proof that I have more ThinkPad cred than you.

You will learn a ton. Also, you will spend a lot of money hosting an activitypub instance. I run a server for fun, and it’s about $40/month to handle the absolute firehose of assets I receive 24/7.