I’m guessing his/her point involves the location of its incorporation. Any company in the “five eyes” zone can be forced to release details about its users to any member state. One must evaluate whether NordVPN keeps anything more than a few hours - days tops - to decide if it is “safe enough”. I was worried enough about this particular point that I chose a VPN that is not in any way beholden to five eyes or the fourteen eyes, which is a similar agreement.

Proton caught heat because of its release of information to the local law enforcement recently. While Switzerland is not part of the five eyes, it does have its own laws requiring a reveal in certain circumstances. I forgot the details, but I think they had an IP address that had not yet been wiped from cache, and that was enough to pinpoint the hackers being sought.

In truth, there’s no sure way to be sure. One still must trust the organization is both honest and competent enough to properly wipe any residual information. No matter who it is, some amount of information has to be in cache for some time in order to be able to deliver the service, and there also needs something tracking the workings of the system to ensure it isn’t overloaded or to find opportunities to improve it.

I’m the same way, been using that for my P6 and P2 XL. I thought the P2 battery or usb-c was failing 4 years ago until I degoogled it with Lineage for MicroG. Zero problems charging it after that, and battery is still adequate. It disxharges faster now, but at 6 yo, one has to expect degradation.

Adaway is the other must-have app for me as it blocks adware, spyware, malware at the OS level.

I will unroot my phone or use a different encryoted phone when i travel overseas because rooted phones are insecure if the bad actor gets physical access.

Must be nice. I bought mine 5 years ago and apparently will never receive it. $700 - poof! $700 gone forever. At this point, it’d be good for a paperweight.

This. This, this, this, this!

My linux computers are rooted. I can get root any time i need it and nobody is refusing to offer their sevices on linux because it is vulnerable.

Nobody ever points out that when any app wants root, you get a dialog to ask if it can have it. If you don’t know why it’s asking, say no. It ain’t rocket science.

Now, if you are going through customs and you don’t want them to copy your phone and read all your personal documents, that is a different situation. Lock your bootloader unrooted and encryped to the nines. Preferably use a phone with almost nothing on it.

It’s configured to run at the native resolution of the device, and looks good, but I’m not sure it is really at 4k.

Skyrim performs flawlessly, but Baldur’s Gate gets sbout 15 fps at this rez, so I have to lower the graphics setting. I’m nesr endgame, so there is a lot of city animation.

I can’t speak on multiplayer experiences, but i have several emulators set up on my OLED deck. GameCube, N64, switch, ps2. They work well, and i have a 3DO pro2 i use while it’s docked to my 4k tv, sound through a surround sound bar with woofer - amazing sound. I mostly run skyrim and Balder’s Gate 3 at the moment, but i enjoyed BotW and my son likes sonic.

I’m late to the comment board, but I had to say something. I was amazed when one day my broken Balders’ Gate III P22 install suddenly not only worked, but worked with Vulkan. Until now, I figured it was an improvement to the Proton-GE or Experimental that came down around that time. Anyway, when I loaded my game (in the underdark) on my OLED, I was shocked at the improvement.

Not only was the framerate closer to 40+ vs 28-30, but it was vibrant. The resolution appeared to be better, too. It was gratifying to see it looked better than on my ancient Lenovo gaming laptop (circa 2016), which, to my surprise, handled it quite well considering the age of the NVidia card.

If it is WebDAV, DAVx5 has a feature that makes those shares available as a local volume. An sFTP app can be used to xfer files.

TrueNAS probably has a service for synchronized folders like google drive. I don’t know how to access NFS or SMB transparently.

Only if it earns a profit.

At least Chromecast for TV basically does this. I can search for something and it will tell me all the ways I can watch for any installed app even unsubscribed.

Still, the issue of paying multiple monthly fees to see what you want is ludicrous. It’s as if the media companies maliciously complied with consumers’ desire to pick and choose what they watch rather than pay $200 a month for 1000 stations they don’t watch.

Now, you have to pay $200 to get all the services that have what you want to watch - and you still have to sift through the drek.

Much better, that. /s

Well, I just ripped a few of my old DVDs with handbrake, and I upscaled by setting the resolution to 720p and ensuring the “upscale” cjljeckbox is ticked.

Tovmy eye, it looks pretty good on my 55" 1080p TV, and I noticed in my voddeo player it scaled to my display size appropriately. If I imply ripped it, the video would have a hugee black box around it ony high red display.

I’d say using handbrake is fairly effective once you get it off the disk, for which I used a rip to mkv app in Linux.

I use ocrmypdf, after being a bit frustrated with gscan2pdf. There is a simple ui available, but I just created a tiny script that does the ocr , deskew, etc. In one operation with wildcard file selection.

I also installed a jbig compressor that really shrinks images. My processed docs are generally 40% to 80% smaller, and it seems to get better tesseract output than gscan does.

Well, lookingvatvthe advertisements, interviews with the producers, and articles by people who saw it, I’m not convinced.

And, for good measure, this one from Time praising it for exposing “male fragility”.

Um… Non_sequitur much?

Wow. This is what makes Lemmy different from Reddit. On reddit, I’d be baited to rage-post repeatedly.

Anyway, apology gladly accepted, and I’m glad you aren’t the person I feared you to be. I’m willing to keep my mind open on the Barbie movie, though everything I know so far points to anti-male themes.

Did you read the tagline on this very thread? That’s enough for me to make my conclusions, but add the statements made by the creators, and various reviews by people who’ve seen it, and I can comfortably live with my conclusion.

Oh, and your comment dripping with derision and insults to someone you don’t know at all reveals your true nature. Go spend some quality time with yourself, if you can stand it.

You forgotvto mention the serious misandry of that movie. Another double standard. Women do it, it’s all good fum. Men do it - canceled.

It doesn’t, so I use OpenVPN ony DSM when I remote connect, and use ExpressVPN on the devices that need it for anonymousness.

I’m tooling around looking for an answer to my own OpenVPN Question,cand saw this.

All I can do to give you hope is describe my experience.

I use OpenVPN to access my Synology NAS, and if my network at the remote end is good, I don’t have anywhere near the problem you have. I recently switched to a provider that uses fiber (only recently became available) and both the up and down is 1G (I verified).

You might have configuration issues that throttle your throughput if you have 35Mb up speed. You won’t be fast with that, but it shouldn’t be excrutiating. I had 10Mb up, and that was excruciating.

How bad is it when you push a similar file up to the server? If it is not much faster, there’s definitely something outside the encryption slowing you down.

I generally stick with Firefox, but I do have chromite ony degoogled secondary phone as a backup in case something only works with chromium renderer.