Kagi allows you to set the priority of domains, as well as some other tuning. Though it is in beta at the moment, and the plan to charge for use eventually.
"Freezing" and "freezer cold" aren't the same temperature - I'd generally consider "freezing" to be about 0°C, where a freezer should be at most -18°C in order to stop food from spoiling.
If you're using an iPhone (dunno if Android has a similar feature), you can enable "silence unknown callers" in the phone settings. Then anyone not in your contacts or suggested contacts won't even ring.
I've locked down developer workstations before, to prevent things like "connect a USB stick and take a copy of data/code". We did allow running your own VM, where you could be root if you wanted.
In general, I've found it's pretty workable to run without root/sudo for development work - there's not _that_ much stuff that you can't just install to ~/bin and run from there.
The main thing I notice break when I enable things like "no cross origin cookies" is history on the AWS console. Stuff like "roles you've switched to" and "services you've used recently" get forgotten.
I'd expect it depends on the source - a retailer like Amazon or a local supermarket could well send a daily offer that's interesting/useful. A more niche store might struggle to send something people want to receive even monthly.
If it helps, molly-guard [0] aims to prevent this kind of "oops". Back in the days of running co-located kit, we had that on the host boxes for the "oops, that was the host rather than a VM that I just stopped" moments.
I do see that site will happily sell me software, with a variety of payment methods, to a huge list of countries.
Some TV/film/(to a lesser extent) music is not available at all to consumers in any given country.
It seems at least morally reasonable to download from TPB if you've tried Amazon/Netfilx/iTunes first and the content isn't available (as OP mentioned that they do)
Lower upload vs. download speed is an inherent technical limitation of the technologies (generally) used for domestic Internet connections - xDSL/Cable. From the ISPs perspective, there is often no reason to explicity limit end-user upload speed, since upstream they're buying symetrical links/
I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same problem ?
I've not tested it, but it should expand just like anything else. The effect would broadly be that running "rm *" in the directory would recurse into subfolders without warning.