TerkErJerbs @ TerkErJerbs @lemm.ee

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No worries. I do know that Windscribe has both CLI as well at custom configs that you can plug into router clients (i.e. wireguard, openvpn, etc), and they also offer residential IPs.

Happy VPNing!

Those IPs eventually end up on block lists as users do dumb things with them. You could definitely benefit from auto cycling through them but it's still going to be luck of the draw, ultimately. Normally you'll get a different IP each time you connect, even to the same location/server so if your VPN client has a CLI component, even a basic one, you could write a simple script to tell it to 'disconnect' and then 'connect' periodically, for instance.

Depending on which VPN client you're using on the router, that would be the simplest approach to explore imo.

ETA you could also explore getting a residential IP from your VPN provider if they offer that. It's a little more expensive but they don't end up on block lists as much. Less hassle.

I use syncthing for personal and work, and it's great. Having said that I've found it struggles with versioning i.e. editing a document from multiple devices.

Look into something like Standard Notes for cross platform markdown editing. It's e2e encrypted, works great, the dev is very responsive. Ymmv but I really like it, have it on every device I own and use it daily.

I've also just used a private git repo for editing docs from multiple devices. Once you get it set up it's effortless, and most ide's are extremely fun to use as text editors.

OP is it the 7700 non-x 65w tdp version? Asking because I'm thinking about upgrading my CPU from 5600x to the 7700non-x and have the same gpu. I was actually wondering how throwing that integrated graphics into the mix would work so thanks for asking this and looking forward to your findings if you don't mind posting however you end up solving this.

Dope, thank you for posting. Been using 'Core CTRL' for quite awhile but Imma give this a rip. For some reason the former tool never could control the fan curve for my GPU (all the other fans in the box worked fine with it) so this might be profit.

fml I've got a debian build on what used to be my daily driver until I somehow managed to completely eff the kernel and headers. This was my first time using LVM and I still don't know how, but the last time I updated the kernel and headers they installed to not my user-space of choice but to the parent encrypted volume. Not realizing what I had done wrong I then proceeded to autoremove and next reboot... bricked.

Have tried multiple ways to get it back, nothing profitable yet. At least I can still access the file system and have taken everything off that I wanted. Haven't gotten around to format/reinstall. Won't be carelessly working with kernels again that's for sure.

I've run UBO and Privacy Badger side by side for years. There's no harm in having both, as UBO has lots of great features besides tracker blocking (I use the element zapper/blocker almost daily, for instance). They work well together.

No the sales kid actually started laughing a little when he dug into it. He was like ah did you bail on a 2 dollar service fee or something, years ago? I was like jfc you have got to be joking, they're denying me for that? 😂

Rogers chased me for months via collections agencies back in the early oughts because after I had cancelled my cell phone (and paid everything I owed up to date)... there was a $1.80 service charge or some shit that I didn't get the bill for... so they literally sent it to receivership.

I laughed, and ignored them. It came back to bite me over a decade later when I was looking for a new cell and plan. Rogers had the one I wanted, and I applied and was rejected because of that $1.80 default I pulled in my early 20's. Good times.

Recently I was a Shaw internet customer. I wasn't keeping up with the news that they were merging with Rogers. Around the time I found out about that, I was moving anyhow and neither service is available where I am located now. The best part is, I started looking into my modem settings (provided by and managed by Shaw at the time i got it) and I realized that they had force-enabled Shaw/Rogers Public Hotspot services on my modem/router. This is notable because I had put the device in bridge mode over a year prior, and completely disabled the wifi antennas on it. The company (Rogers) had set into motion some bullshit to turn every single modem/router in every consumer's home into a public wifi hotspot, without any consent or prior knowledge. The wifi account itself being used as the hotspot is separate from your own private traffic etc... but it eats into the bandwidth you're paying for, obviously. If you're in a high-traffic part of a large community, probably a lot.

When I phoned in to cancel my plan I also made a point of asking the support person to take notes on my complaint about that non-consensual fuckery with the device sitting right beside my desk.

TL:DR fuck Rogers, and good for the Shaw techs for standing their ground.

The fingerprint reader on mine doesn't work either. I've read up on solutions for that regards Debian but I haven't tried any yet. I have a yubikey and that works fine as an extra layer of login security.

I have a lenovo thinkbook (cheapy thinkpad) for work with AMD chip and gpu. It wasn't one of their models certified for linux but everything runs flawlessly for a lean debian build for me. I've had linux on several laptops and this is my second machine with AMD chips, and I'll say that what you hear is true; There are way more, and better, drivers available for AMD if you go with linux.

My 2 cents.

The other comments almost got it right. If you had your torrent client bound to Mullvad and then opened your Tor Browser.... your torrent client would be running over the VPN tunnel (Mullvad) while your Tor Browser would be sending all its traffic over your vanilla ISP and through... the Tor network (unless you also bind it to Mullvad). You'd effectively be "split tunnelling" your traffic, which is actually a good use-case for Tor anyhow.

There's a lot of debate about whether it's fine to run a VPN tunnel (OS-wide) before you fire up your Tor Browser.... effectively you'd be pushing your Tor traffic through the tunnel to the VPN's entry/exit nodes before it got to/left the Tor network. Some say it's a security risk (if you don't trust the VPN provider, for instance. Which is valid if you're using some of the scummier providers). You need to do some research and understand the implications of doing that, before just mashing buttons.

You can also fire up the Tor network system-wide if you're crafty and then create an encrypted VPN tunnel to go over that, so all of your VPN traffic would be travelling over and through Tor nodes before it reached the entry/exit nodes of your VPN. It can work both ways. There are cases for both options, if you know what you're doing... which is a huge caveat.

Overall though, no. Please don't torrent over Tor. As you say, it's not necessary and eats bandwidth from an already slow network protocol. A VPN is more than sufficient for that purpose. If you wanna get more secure than that, make sure you're running an encrypted DNS solution (or resolve your DNS locally if you know how to do that) and profit. Then your ISP can't see shit. They'll still probably traffic-shape and throttle you, simply because they can tell it's going out over an encrypted tunnel of some kind... but they'll never be able to see what specifically you're up to.

Honestly when I told people where I worked, half of them heard Spotify in their mind and rarely bothered to correct them 😂

Welp... how long-winded do you want me to get on this one? You could look up literally hundreds of examples in mainstream news about how Shopify came up as a lean scrappy underdog circa 2012 alongside many of the second wave of budding platforms. In those days they were just a snowboard company who hated the pre-rolled ecomm solutions (especially Amazon) and came up with their own way.

Turns out a few other people liked their way as well... so they pivoted to SaaS and took off running. Their mantra at that time (and they still pull it out on the regular now... for laughs) was "Arming the rebels" (against Amazon...)

They built their SaaS platform on world-class customer/merchant support. Built things users asked for. Hired talented people who were inspired by the environment of doing good in the world... etc etc. They believed in what they were doing... i.e. "Make Commerce Better."

Around the time I joined (2021) they got absolutely fucking hammered by new clients/merchants over lockdown. They were primed for "easy dropshipping" this and "low-cost barrier to entry" that for tens of millions of broke people sitting at home for lockdowns across 18+ months, looking for (pre-rolled) ways to earn an income. Their own marketing to small and emergin businesses (easy money over here!) ended up fucking them in the end.

They did an over-hiring wave like any other tech compan at the time. Very shortly after their email and chat support queues were overrun (weeks-long wait times) they reduces phone support hours for normal merchants before killing them completely shortly thereafter (workers can only field one call at a time, vs 3 chats and multiple emails per hour)... Obv they kept phones open for Plus merchants (enterprise, of course). That's Enshittification - Stage 1. They built their business, name, and reputation helping the little guy (the "rebels")... and now they were pulling up the ladder behind them to help the Plus/enterprize clients get and remain profitable, instead.

I could keep going. If you look far enough into it they started aggressively courting Enterprize clients last year after their shares tanked, and after they laid off 30% of staff.... and while they do that they need to pull finances and resources further away from their "rebels" to keep the Nikes and the Chapters of the world happy. Established mega-corps don't love it if you're giving "the little guy" stellar support while you give them (Nike) the same level. They want "better", at all times.

They've been at multi-billion dollar valuation for years prior to Covid. It was the pressure through lockdowns and out the other side tha pressured them to keep growing profitability, sent them over the edge of enshittification. They've clearly taken a lot of advice from Wall Street and Silicon Valley about how to stay on the money train (from same).... during tough financial times. They're already pulling top-notch support from their enterprize clients, and third-party app devs (ask me how I know that). The next (obvious) phase is to claw back those margins that keep enterprize clients happy, once they have enough of them locked in that a few leaving won't hurt them. That's phase 3, if you haven't been keeping track.

Do you need more of a primer, or did I answer your question?

See my other comment 😂

It doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but that's a good thing. It seems to be catching on, and frankly those large companies and orgs that are enshittifying and get labeled thusly might actually not love being called out with it, and hopefully slow their roll.

Doubtful, but a man can dream.

I used to work at S***ify... which is currently enshittifying at top-speed. It fits.

Feels on that, I know it's not a one liner. I suppose I asked here because I was looking for a possible open source/community made solution (several devs working on and refining it collectively). As it happens one of the other commenters linked to pretty much this type of solution i.e. Haven which looks dope AF and I'm a take it for a spin shortly.

Thank you. I'll look it up!