It’s a dystopian nightmare right now but this is gonna ease the pain in three years when off lease Macs come on to the secondhand market. It’s gonna be like that special time every year when the fiscal year rolls over and suddenly two or three generation old dells and Lenovos are all over eBay because they came off lease from the business that was using em.
Imagine just getting your build off the ground and they patch out its core mechanic
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“Okay, so like they’ll still vote for you if you’re a former mercenary, but what if you had a Nazi tattoo?”
“Alright what if you had a rape allegation but it came from across the political isle”
“Okay, okay, now let’s say you’re a concentration camp guard…”
“Woah, I honestly didn’t think that was gonna work. Alright this time you have a rape allegation and she believes in your platform and still thinks she should vote for you. That one doesn’t fly huh?”
“Win? Who cares about winning, this is gold, man!”
Only the bottom third or so of the leg is a finger. The rest is a leg.
Oh hell yeah, varn vlog!
We fallin’ asleep in traffic and veering across four lanes good tonite!
If you can tolerate using crypto instead of cash, ovpn has Singapore servers and that’s close.
If you could be careful with your account information and send cash you could probably make proton work, they got lots of servers where you need them. You’d have to resist the temptation to add some newfangled service though.
Ngl between your reply to me and others you sound like the kind of person who should stick with mullvad.
I only recently started using the mullvad application as opposed to configs and maybe it’s because I was on configs for so long or maybe it’s mullvads app quality being better than average but I’ve been impressed with it across all platforms.
Oh they can do cc and PayPal refunds. Probably monero and bitcoin too. Wire transfers you can’t usually reverse, cash you can’t either. Cooperative merchants can refund a wire transfer, but it’s not as cut and dry as the cc, PayPal or crypto process.
And it’s possible for a rep to decide a person is who they say they are and refunding the balance of an account somehow but that requires the person give up the shield of anonymity and who would do that.
That’s the whole point of paying cash. If your vpn account gets associated, just abandon it and move on. There’s no record of ongoing payment for an investigator to trace back.
The person talking about bufferbloat is making a good point and if your router can run even something like freshtomato then you can use cake aqm and make life better.
I have used ivpn in the past. I currently use air for port forwarding stuff.
There is nothing “wrong” with ivpn. You can, if you’re careful, avoid setting up an account, associating an email, choose a limited set of services and pay with cash and get, theoretically, what you get with mullvad.
The difference is that with mullvad it’s much harder to do something you didn’t know was a problem. That’s not a thing that’s “wrong” with i. Lots of people expect to be able to log in to their account and recover their password with an email and use a bunch of additional nice apps and services like what i offers. That’s not wrong.
I said theoretically above and above that because i has not been under the same degree of scrutiny as mullvad. So it’s kind of like the veteran choosing a dented shield over a newly built one because “i know this one has stopped a blow”.
Air is… a piracy vpn. An eagle eyed user is expected to read between the lines to understand that and understand what it means.
It’s less of an ingenuine offer issue and more of a “there’s a way to pay thats anonymous and untraceable” problem.
There’s no way to privately and anonymously confirm that the person who paid cash and is asking for a refund is who they say they are. If you have them do that then now you have a record of who they are and that can be used by the cops when they cleverly hit you with a subpoena the month after your big scandal broke.
So if you’re committed to protecting customers privacy you can’t do refunds on cash.
If it actually matters that you have privacy and anonymity it’s probably best to not switch.
You know what’s best for you, but the guilt of knowing one drop of your money goes to someone whom you find repugnant is preferable to losing life or safety.
If you’re looking for a replacement and don’t actually need the privacy/anonymity then ivpn might be a good choice. You can screw it up and set up an account that can’t possibly by as safe as mullvad but if you’re careful and know what you’re doing you can also get damn close to it. Theoretically.
But if it matters it’s probably time to reup mullvad with a new account id and cash through the mail instead of whatever they refunded you through.
That doesn’t help the cash in an envelope with no return address crowd. Mullvad also doesn’t have any way to associate an account with a person.
Idk if you already know, but the technical details of csam/pedo cases are almost always that level of absurd. The first time i found out about that pattern was the old one where they were unencrypted smtp on port 25 emailing file attachments between each other using isp provided emails (like bobjones@charter.com) and some intern was cleaning out old attachments on the email server and turned them in.
E: oh yeah, and it wasn’t even a case of some pencil neck opening up the attachments as he “deleted” them, the file name itself was an admission of guilt.
If you ever get anxious about it just switch to private trackers.
For torrenting it means when you attach to a swarm with a snitch user they won’t be able to say to your isp “the person at this ip address was doing the illegal thing you’re required by law to at least send a nasty letter about!”
That’s real common on public trackers.
If you’re at work and wanna be able to look at pit pics on your phone without getting blocked by the office wifi or sending dns requests to your phone company for whatever website kids nowadays use for that kind of thing then a vpn can help you.
Replying to this on hexbear because it’s more likely someone will need to hear it here than elsewhere:
If you are in a situation where you absolutely need privacy and anonymity to avoid being harmed attacked or otherwise threatened by organized groups including literally interpol, do not switch from mullvad because of this.
When you reach the pearly gates St. Peter is gonna turn to Stalin and the prophet Muhammad pbuh and say “can we look past using mullvad because of the extenuating circumstances?” And they’re both gonna say “of course, plenty of room in the mayonnaise pool for a fine soul such as this.”
If you just wanna be shiesty use i, if you wanna forward your ports use air.
If it actually matters then you should stick with mullvad. Like, if you’re concerned about being attacked or punished by government or something.
If you just wanna watch porno at work and prefer anonymity, ivpn is a cost effective alternative that can be used in the same way as mullvad if you’re careful and know what you’re doing.
If you just wanna download files and are not Italian then air is a good cheap port forwarding vpn.
A possible reading is “yall: people are buying literal cp”
Which could be a reference to the famous time that idiot pedos were sharing csam over cifs (windows file and printer sharing, yes, right click -> share this folder) with only the layer of privacy and anonymity provided by their mullvad use separating the cops cybercrime nerds from being able to be the only good cops that day and mullvad wouldnt cooperate, a warrant raid found that there were no logs, no logging facility and the police action taken after that heavily implies there was no way to install a logging facility.
But it’s not clear because the person you replied to has nobly resisted the hierarchy of maoist standard English’s g.r.a.m.m.a.r.
The auto reboot is on an 18 hour timer in graphene and iirc a 72 hour timer in ios.