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Had 26 degrees celsius here this week, for being Scandinavia that definitely counts as summer 😅

Have sadly not checked these out in detail, however they do seem more promosing that the general free vpn one find by looking up "free vpn" on Google Play Store. Neither of them use excessive amounts of permissions, and the permssions they do ask for seem to fair to ask for. Neither of them have trackers implemented too which is nice. I would trust these more than other 'completelty free VPNs' atleast. However I'm only judging of first impressions and a quick look at their permissions. I'm assuming they lack features, speed etc..

If you want trust and transparency then options like Mullvad, Proton and IVPN would be my suggestions.

Exactly why we chose the name haha, we both love Ramen so much!

Thanks for sharing, their videoes seem to be of high quality, defo something I'll subscribe to.

Hi there, as someone who is writing his master thesis on the privacy of fee vpns. I cannot recommend a single one. By that I mean the ones that advertise themselves as being a mainly free vpn. I have not had a look at privado in specific, but would highly recommend sticking to Proton. Their vpn is also fairly priced if you ask me.

Addtionally, if you want to quickly check out an app to see if they use excessive amounts of permissions(based on manifest file), and the implemented trackers they have you can use Exodus Privacy Tool; https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/io.privado.android/latest/

I've been through the same distro as you've mentioned in your post. With my own various issues. I switched to Bazzite a few months ago and could t be happier. It's by far the easiest Linux distro I've used, everything is set to work out of the box and the system cannot be borked. Bazzite also a great community behind it and murliple talanted people pushing this to be the best optimized gaming distro.

While Nobara is great in its own ways, and GE being an absolute legend for his work. I personally don't see any upsides to using it over Bazzite if you're mainly going to be playing games.

Do yourself the favour and try this before trying Nobara, just my two cents.

This is pretty funny actually, I'll start doing this 😅

Yeah I simply wasnt aware of this, thought it was smart to change to the latest standards - but comments here have pointed out that its not worth chaning, plus it will change itself over time. Thanks anyways!

Corporate greed.

Thanks again for the addtitional insights on this! I was indeed planning up picking up an Intel Arc 310 or a 380 later on as they are super cheap and seem to be excellent at hardware transcoding :)

Noted, thanks :)

I live in Scandinavia so ebay isn't much of an option for us really. Also prefer to use lesser big-corp when buying tech, while more expensive usually worth it due to better warranty and customer service. But thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!

Sounds good, thanks for letting me know. I'll pass on the word :)

I'll buy it used if it has been properly checked by another vendor before sold again. Otherwise I wont.

Ah nice recommendation, have seen that name been mentioned before but wasnt sure what it was for. Now I know! :)

Thanks, this answered pretty much all I was curious about. Appriciate it!

Oh, I was not aware of this at all, thanks for letting me know :)

Wasn't sure if that mattered or not in the case of Unraid. Had a feeling that only counted for the size of the disk. Just trying to make sure im not buying an expensive 10TB that I wont be able to use :P

Thanks for the tip 🌻

Thanks for all the input and feedback - really appriciate it :) I still have quite the way to go to learn some of what these terms are. I have one PCI-e card for expanding the amount of Sata ports, wether is a cheapo card or not im not entierly sure(got it secondhand via a package deal), but have been using it for half a year now without any issues :)