eh, it was more fun 40 years ago from what i’ve heard. everything is pretty sanitized these days.

funnily enough, there is an area in vienna, austria that is unofficially called “bermuda triangle”, owing the name to the large concentration of bars.

I don’t have any opinion on them regarding their performance. with proton there exist case files which show that they do not keep logs when not court ordered to do so (in the case i know about, they had to be court ordered to activate logs for login attempts to a specific mailbox). I haven’t heard anything bad about Mullvad either.

Windscribe seems to be fine, but they had at least one big misstep where a private key for OpenVPN was saved locally on a server that then was seized by authorities. PIA, on the other hand, had no issues hiring a criminally convicted CTO and merged with Kape Technologies, which was in the business of creating browser toolbars containing potientially unwanted programs.They have been audited in 2022 tho, so maybe they are alright now…

Thanks, I will take a look in the morning!

I use protonvpn, which has a very nice windows client and a not so nice, but functional Linux client (don’t know about MacOS). Port forwarding works either way, and you have the option of using wireguard or OpenVPN. Their website has a lot of tutorials.

I liked mullvad too, and they are cheaper, but I switched a few months ago because I got a deal for protonvpn and wanted to check out if port forwarding makes any difference for getting my share ratio back in order (and with a seedbox already in mind)

thanks, when the time comes i will do so if i’m stuck :-)

thanks for the suggestion, i will take a look at it!

protonvpn does portforward, i am currently using it that way

thanks for the info! I’m already covered on the VPN front incl port forwarding at least, opsec is a thing for me since the music industry started sending out love letters to napster users in europe :-)

i’d rather do it myself, since i want to learn as much as possible, including setting up an -arr stack. what hoster is performant and not too expensive?

I had the same issue with my router, and i had to go into Advanced -> Socket Backlog Size and set it to 1 (default is 5) to completely fix it. Do you have a TP-Link router as well?

thats a interesting twist on the Dolchstoßlegende - but this time it’s not a cowardly lie to kill jews, but a commentary on actually happening politics. And all that because the Ukraine didn’t want to fabricate dirt against Hunter Biden for Orange Mussolini

Here’s the video proof

should have named them BORT and BURT

wanted to say exactly that. marking your enemies with an “mental illness” to send them to open-ended detainment in an “mental institution” like guantanamo.

It’s an official rule in r/dataisbeautiful to allow US-centric posts only on Thursdays (probably to prevent the drowning out of other stuff), so that’s fine in my book.

I worked tech support for an ISP, and i did this more often than i want to think about it.

It didn’t help that one of the cable modems we gave out to our clients had a standby-button, which made the CM look like it was off - there was no indicator at all on the device, so i couldn’t even blame the client for that (but i did blame my employer for not thinking about that. just like i blamed him for buying another modem series with power sockets which failed pretty quickly. did i mention that repairs were done in-house, and not all too well? it’s been 20 years, and i am still a bit salty for all my wasted time)

Gear Factory

pegging is quite literally pushing shit good

was gonna say, no such guide can be considered complete without fmhy; i wouldn’t send them to repackers, since every pirate desires different types of treasure (even for games it depends on the system, someone might look for the games he played on the psx in his youth)