Check in your BIOS if on-board Ethernet is disabled. I think on MSI motherboards it's under "Integrated Peripherals". If not this, check PCI settings in the BIOS.
Oh, thanks for this precision, I wasn't aware of this. And now that I think of it, it's obvious that the first exchange with a server has to be unencrypted
Yes, because they know the IPs your packets go to, but if there are multiple websites behind a single IP they won't know which one (unless you use your ISP DNS server, which you should probably not)
Which YouTube video you are watching to. etc.
No, because the URL is contained within the HTTP packets which are encrypted with SSL (the S in HTTPS), so unless the ISP does MiM, they cannot know which URL you are visiting.
Excuse me for my lack of understanding, but why are there so many people looking to hide their traffic from their ISP with a VPN? Isn't HTTPS enough? Are you afraid of ISPs resorting to DPI or MiM to spy on their users? Is customer protection so weak in the US that ISPs are free to spy on their customers using aforementioned techniques?
Edit: I just realized that I left out people leaving under authoritarian regimes, for whom VPNs are unfortunately required to evade their government.
If you people had half a clue what its like to run and mod a popular torrent site half the comments here would be just thanks. You think 1337x has a huge team of people moderating FREE content for you all? Let me clue you all in, this is most certainly NOT the case.
Very few people modding site right now. I can tell you this, NO one and I mean NO one is working with anyone to make money off of people on site involving moderators or admins. The people that are actively modding the site have full time jobs with families and do not look at uploads coming threw 24/7. The torrent in question was removed when it was checked and verified. Please excuse the delay as we were not fast enough for some of you and your free content. What mods are there are there just because of the community no other reason. Getting paid? Please, stop it now.
You should be wary of any software or games you download from anywhere. If you dont trust 1337x then dont go there, but to start smashing on what few moderators who are just there to support you people in your quest for good pirated material is just wrong and no where near correct.
For the people who think we are in cahoots with anyone involved with site and donations for your information none of the mods like the change that has recently happened involving donations. What sense does it make to take donations to remove ADS when and if you loose the account you are screwed? The password recovery does not work on 1337x as of now and has not for a very long time. As mods/Admins we have zero access to the backed of the site. No control Whatsoever. Never have never will. Site owner barely has any communication with the Mods if you all want to know the truth.
Posts like the OP has here makes me want to quit and let fate take its course to be perfectly honest with all the ungrateful comments for FREE CONTENT!
For in-browser ads, I recommend Firefox with uBlock Origin.
For in-app ads, using DNS-based ad blocking (AdGuard DNS, NextDNS and others) will work with apps that do not run their own ad network.
Finally, for apps with their own ad network, you can give ReVanced a try: it can patch apps like YouTube, Twitter, Twitch and Instagram to remove ads or add usability tweaks. Just keep in mind that they can decide to restrict access to patched apps whenever they want or even ban you (Instagram is notorious for banning or shadow-banning people toying with their API).
Great, first the game requires the player to always be online, now paying gamers have to endure DRM that will only delay releases of pirated copies for a few days/weeks...
Edit: Oh yeah, and it requires a "Starbreeze Nebula" account, whatever that shit is (see the SteamDB page under "3rd-Party Account")
Adding to what has already been said by other commenters, if the data is really important you should consider an off-site backup in addition to your external hard drive backup. It could be Dropbox, Google Drive, Backblaze, a hard drive in another place, as long as you can recover your data in case your home gets robbed or destroyed (flood, fire).
Been on Kbin first, then moved to Lemmy because I wanted to self-host and Lemmy was much more easier to set up than Kbin.
Also even though I prefered Kbin's interface at first on the desktop, Lemmy's is much better on smartphones.
I don't know, recently there were articles on Google's Web Environment Integrity published on different communities and each of them had slightly different takes in the comments, I feel de-duplicating posts would make me miss some part of the conversation or at least some of the point of views expressed in the different communities.
One of my main gripes is that this speech sells airplanes as sustainable when we should instead reduce their use. I understand that air travel companies are not willing to go this way, but for our long-term survival we should.
I think you're right and the F1TV crew agrees with you (I watched the Weekend Warmup right after my comment and they mentioned Mekies's early departure)
Thankfully the article addresses the shortcomings of synthetic fuels, too bad you have to scroll all the way to the end for that.
But I feel like synthetic fuels are a crutch: they still emit greenhouse gasses and they are marketed as emitting less than traditional fuels when in fact they are just re-emitting gas than has been captured, making them "net zero" or "net less whatever"
Check in your BIOS if on-board Ethernet is disabled. I think on MSI motherboards it's under "Integrated Peripherals". If not this, check PCI settings in the BIOS.