If you’re so paranoid of your relatives, maybe cut contact or get some therapy

You can skip the MS account during install, just select the domain join and then don’t actually join a domain. You wind up with a single local user that way.

I just upgraded mine to a 512gb flash drive after blowing out a 256gb… maybe I have too many distros

Just something to keep the lawyers busy and paid. Unless there’s copyrighted content inside the repo (which doesn’t appear to be the case), this will go nowhere

The domain is pretty important to Lemmy. If you lose control of it, your instance is effectively dead since the federation will not recognize your traffic until you get the domain back. There’s no way to change the domain of an instance so you’d have to start from scratch.