A sinner and a Fediverse Advocate.
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Wasn’t there something that couldn’t be classified as free because it had json or something which has a licence and it’s only stipulation is is “do not use for evil”?
2·2 months agoThey can’t read the contents of the traffic but they can tell it’s a VPN
They don’t really ban them, but there is deep packet inspection where they may throttle the connection or in my experience, cut it off after a period of time. Sometimes they block them during national occasions. I could probably try something better than OpenVPN. I only use it for personal use anyway and I am a foreigner, so they really wouldn’t care (if anything, it’s kind of expected waiguoren behaviour). If you are roaming on a foreign sim card and using mobile data, there is no censorship from my experience. Just needed the VPN for wifi
It is distinguishable via deep-packet-inspection, China uses this
Deep-packet inspection exists. They can tell when vpns are being used generally. They kept shutting off my VPN in China ☹️
I store them in an app on my phone behind password protection
Depends on how strong your password is and the environment you are entering the password in
Not entirely related but whenever I told my dad to “install Linux” he shrugged it off. Then I specifically started telling him to look into Linux Mint and sent him a link to the site and he was more intrigued.
I think Ian later died
On the flip side, I use Ubuntu and I’m very happy with it. I didn’t like Gnome so I realised I could easily switch to KDE Plasma. It’s still miles better than Windows. Although I did have issues once installing Selenium, turns out it didn’t play well with snap packages which I didn’t know were there (I was using apt-get install)
Make sure it’s all powered by the cloud
I remember when my mum was filling out a form as part of the autism assessment, she was like “sounds a lot like my husband as well… And his dad”
Years before I switchedish to Linux, I already started preferring FOSS applications. Basically I made a bunch of word templates, then by an error, my licence for office was revoked (I was supposed to have it with my place of work at the time) and I realised that I built my house upon the sand. So I looked into openoffice formats and got libreoffice, and remade all of my templates in that. I believe there are also other office apps that would be able to read my documents just fine, pretty sure?
Anyway, eventually the issue was rectified, but I was definitely not switching back to MS Office. I had adobe for a bit but their tools were annoying to keep cracking. switched to Inkscape and gimp. Then I started toying around with selfhosting so had a linux CLI on a few machines. You think I’m using Windows Server? 🤣
Do when it came to when Ibgot a new computer, installing Linux just made sense.
My old computer is my gaming machine though, still runs windows and I use it occasionally, then get reminded of how much I hate windows.
I’d recommend Jellyfin. Dead easy to use.
I got Ubuntu. It gives me weird warning messages on boot. Sometimes they’re red. I just ignore them.
Trust them over an American one
Guess the CCP is hijacking my connection and changing the words on the webpage 🤪
You can. I believe that’s how Minecraft Java runs on android. Newer android versions give you terminal access