HumanPerson @ HumanPerson @sh.itjust.works

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I have heard legends of a qbt + vpn docker image, but I haven’t found it.

I remember that there is a FOSS option, I just don’t see the need for it. My main issues are not being able to run my clear web torrents all the time and having duplicate files. I think I just need to spend a five hours typing simple but slightly too complicated to automate commands in the terminal to fix this.

Can you elaborate on using a socks proxy? I assumed you would get an isp letter if you used one because people always recommended vpns.

Edit: also I don’t want to use tailscale or plex because proprietary. I’m not sure if it’s with mentioning because it looks like plex and plain router port forwarding will work for me.

First, I would recommend posting this in a privacy community instead, as linux isn’t just for privacy. I don’t like to give comments correcting people without proposing a solution, so I would say just running it in your browser with uBlock Origin and maybe a random user agent switcher if zoom lets you. Also clear your cookies when you are done. If you really want full privacy then just use tor browser for it.

Edit: Also use a burner account that you create while using tor.

I can think of a couple decent reasons I think yes:

1. Assuming you still have a life, you are still generating new data. Think about how someone who knew you 5 years ago but hasn't seen you since would probably not know much about you today, specifically regarding the day-to-day stuff companies use for ads.
2. If you think what data companies are doing is wrong, then you could start caring about privacy just to send a message.
3. If you live in the EU you could use GDPR to request that they delete your data. I don't know if Apple and Google have been known to comply with GDPR but it could be worth a shot.

Yeah, I should have been more clear. I meant I want to have it sometime this year. I know of Arch and Gentoo for quick releases, and I know Debian for lts, but I was looking for more of a middle ground.

I still don’t want to do Fedora as I don’t want to touch the red hat situation with a 50m pole, but thanks for telling me how to disable that. I think I am going to try OpenSuse Leap to try to get a balance between new packages and stability. I also have been messing with KDE a bit so I think I might switch back to KDE for a bit. I’m still gonna switch distros for generally newer software and I might try the new Gnome when it comes to Leap.

I want to be able to know my computer won’t crash at 11:58 pm when I am submitting assignments for school and things like that. I don’t trust myself to maintain a system that well. I would like to try to do LFS at some point but right now I am looking for something stable and easy.

Thanks but no. I like being able to learn but I am looking to daily drive and don’t have the prior knowledge to make that work.

OpenSuse leap looks great. I think I will try installing it right now because I recently reinstalled Debian and my computer is in a fairly blank state. Thanks for the recommendation.

It wasn’t gnome. It was budgie but I wasn’t talking about the DE at all. I don’t know the name for it but it was the software that runs to display a loading bar during updates when rebooting. It was a very minor issue that I probably shouldn’t have mentioned, but I just like to see terminal stuff flying by at a million miles an hour during updates. I really shouldn’t have said that as it wasn’t my reason for switching. I am not one to judge a distro by its DE because that can be changed easily but the progress bar was a mild annoyance that I didn’t feel like figuring out how to change.

Edit: I am seriously sorry for describing such a small element of it as windowsey without elaborating. I stand by that element feeling windowsey, but Fedora itself is by no stretch of the imagination windowsey.

This was a very minor complaint about some very minor UI choices. Fedora is an excellent distro.

This is most likely the issue. I can’t help if you are on windows but on Linux you may want to google iptables, ufw, or firewalld.

You mean you didn’t hear about that new encryption standard that keeps your data completely private from everyone except for the good guys?

I think they are trying to say that the title is not an accurate representation of the video, not that the video is inaccurate.

I just spoof the browser agent. They rarely actually need stuff your browser doesn’t support.

Well I think one of the ideas of the functionality of FOSS is that users who don’t like that software they use doesn’t have some feature, someone will add it and the new software will become the new normal. Not much would have to change beyond FOSS software being more commonly used for this to work really well. It already works with proprietary software if you squint hard enough. People hate a LOT of things in Windows, and so they make scripts and things to change Windows, and they freely distribute these scripts that are what makes Windows useable for a lot of people. This is similar to the idea of people just making changes to a hypothetical FOSS Windows, and is decent evidence for the viability of FOSS with very few changes to how end users actually use software.

I used it for a bit when I was starting to daily drive Linux, and I switched the second time it broke. It may end up working for you but just be mindful that it may stop working. I specifically recommended Endeavor because it is Arch based and would be a pretty seamless transition.

I need to stop but it’s just so convenient.

I like sshguard simply because I couldn’t get the fail2ban daemon running and sshguard started right up. I don’t know how the functionality compares but it is simple and never messes stuff up.