ThetaDev @ ThetaDev @lemmy.fmhy.ml

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Here is the VPN setup page of Njalla. As you can see, it looks just as spartan as the public-facing parts of their website.

You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.

Since my airvpn test month expired, I've just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:

Pro:

• Payment via PayPal or cryptocurrency
• Same price as Mullvad (5€/month)
• Static IPv4 and v6, allows you to forward any port
• Torrenting just worked (including port forwarding)
• No VPN application, just use vanilla OpenVPN or Wireguard
• Does not throttle my internet speed (I only have 50MBit/s, so I cannot really test VPN performance. Definitely better than AirVPN though)

Contra:

• Requires E-Mail address/XMPP to create an account
• Only one client. If you need to access your VPN from multiple devices at the same time, you need to buy multiple subscriptions
• Only Swedish servers

Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.

It seems like they made the same mistake as youtube-dl back in the day. If you develop a tool that can be used for piracy, do not straight up advertise that in your readme/documentation.

If you create a YouTube downloader, do not show it downloading music from major labels, use for a creative commons track for the demo instead.

And dont say in the short description of your repo that this tool is meant to steal books from an online lending library.

KDE Sytem monitor has that function, too. You just have to add it to the history page (Sensors/GPU/Usage)

Yes, it does. You can also use the tool to check if a file is cached (just run it without any arguments for that).