jc141 release on 1337x are the best, no install, minimal space used and you can keep seeding without wasting space on a useless-after-first-use installer.
For instance jc141 release of Silksong is 1.9Gb \
while fitgirl version is 1.6Gb installer + 7.6Gb installed.
To be fair, unlike Signal and Matrix, Tox does not rely on external server, it is full P2P. In that regard, setting up a Tox network is infinitely simpler.
Also, the only thing you leak is your IP address that end up in tox DHT, which is a necessity for peers to be able to reach you. It could easily be hidden behind Tor or a VPN.
Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless.
Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc...
FWIW instead of dpkg -i stuff.deb, you can use apt as such: apt install ./stuff.deb (The path syntax like ./ is required to use a local file instead of searching for a package name).
Unlike dpkg, apt is able to fetch dependencies if needed.
Indeed but saying VS Code is open source is quite misleading.