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Hi there, as someone who is writing his master thesis on the privacy of fee vpns. I cannot recommend a single one. By that I mean the ones that advertise themselves as being a mainly free vpn. I have not had a look at privado in specific, but would highly recommend sticking to Proton. Their vpn is also fairly priced if you ask me.

Addtionally, if you want to quickly check out an app to see if they use excessive amounts of permissions(based on manifest file), and the implemented trackers they have you can use Exodus Privacy Tool;
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/io.privado.android/latest/

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Have sadly not checked these out in detail, however they do seem more promosing that the general free vpn one find by looking up "free vpn" on Google Play Store. Neither of them use excessive amounts of permissions, and the permssions they do ask for seem to fair to ask for. Neither of them have trackers implemented too which is nice. I would trust these more than other 'completelty free VPNs' atleast. However I'm only judging of first impressions and a quick look at their permissions. I'm assuming they lack features, speed etc..

If you want trust and transparency then options like Mullvad, Proton and IVPN would be my suggestions.

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I've been through the same distro as you've mentioned in your post. With my own various issues. I switched to Bazzite a few months ago and could t be happier. It's by far the easiest Linux distro I've used, everything is set to work out of the box and the system cannot be borked. Bazzite also a great community behind it and murliple talanted people pushing this to be the best optimized gaming distro.

While Nobara is great in its own ways, and GE being an absolute legend for his work. I personally don't see any upsides to using it over Bazzite if you're mainly going to be playing games.

Do yourself the favour and try this before trying Nobara, just my two cents.

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Corporate greed.

What file format do you store your media in?

Hello! I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how storing media files in .av1 format is very efficient and storage-friendly. I've been storing my files in .mkv format, but now I'm considering using Handbrake or a similar service to convert all my video files to .av1 if it's more compressed than .mkv. So;...

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Oh, I was not aware of this at all, thanks for letting me know :)

Sunny OP ,
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Thanks, this answered pretty much all I was curious about. Appriciate it!

Sunny OP ,
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Ah nice recommendation, have seen that name been mentioned before but wasnt sure what it was for. Now I know! :)

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Sounds good, thanks for letting me know. I'll pass on the word :)

Sunny OP ,
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Noted, thanks :)

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Thanks again for the addtitional insights on this! I was indeed planning up picking up an Intel Arc 310 or a 380 later on as they are super cheap and seem to be excellent at hardware transcoding :)

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Yeah I simply wasnt aware of this, thought it was smart to change to the latest standards - but comments here have pointed out that its not worth chaning, plus it will change itself over time. Thanks anyways!

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Yeah I realised when a few others pointed it out. Learnt a lot from these comments, including yours. Thanks for clearing it up! 🙌

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

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Thanks, have not heard these terms before so will be reading up :)

Sunny OP ,
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Thanks for this, will read up and check out the links!

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That is indeed my current issue haha, was not aware of that when I got into this; so currently have 10TB in parity and only use 3TB for my storage... So wanna get most of out of that parity by buying another disk.

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Thanks for the tips! I dought I'll be going higher that 50TB at max. Would SAS still be nessecary for that you reccon?

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Thanks for all the input and feedback - really appriciate it :) I still have quite the way to go to learn some of what these terms are. I have one PCI-e card for expanding the amount of Sata ports, wether is a cheapo card or not im not entierly sure(got it secondhand via a package deal), but have been using it for half a year now without any issues :)

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Thanks for the tip 🌻

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Wasn't sure if that mattered or not in the case of Unraid. Had a feeling that only counted for the size of the disk. Just trying to make sure im not buying an expensive 10TB that I wont be able to use :P

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I'll buy it used if it has been properly checked by another vendor before sold again. Otherwise I wont.

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I live in Scandinavia so ebay isn't much of an option for us really. Also prefer to use lesser big-corp when buying tech, while more expensive usually worth it due to better warranty and customer service. But thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!

What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?

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I don't see my model (P15) mentioned tht often,and not sure what specifically. But 'm super happy with mine and got it for roughly 500 euros.

Sunny ,
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Would be nice if you could include some details of what is happening when you try etc etc... Not just saying "it doesn't work"...

Sunny ,
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Nicely written article and a good read! However I had not heard of Threema before. It looks like a promising messaging app itself, anyone use it?

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Cool thanks!

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Woah what a massive feature list, kudos to the Devs! 🙌

Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... ( slrpnk.net )

Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years...

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Yeah, I really shouldn't. It's just annoying, that's all.

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Yes indeed, password managers have the option to do this, at least Protonpass and Bitwarden. While Bitwarden you need to connect a third party email service. But it's relatively easy, especially with Protonpass as it will automatically suggest to do this when you create an account somewhere.

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Isn't this the company of Louis Rossman?

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Oh my bad, didnt see that it was a video on mobile for some reason. Watching now :=)

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Am happy to see good backing to Immich!

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This was that tool i was looking for, thanks! 🌻

Sunny ,
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Yeah, I mainly use it for the "send tab to device X", love that feature so much!

Sunny ,
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Hmm that's weird, always worked flawlessly for me, I do also have my devices on the same VPN at all times though, maybe it's that? I also only use Linux and Android.

Sunny ,
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just tested on an iPad I have, works fine :--)

Sunny ,
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I use that too thihi

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How did you do it? I'm getting this error, not sure if its supposed to be like that or not?

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/21861658-3106-46d8-92af-01de16b585c1.webp

Sunny ,
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Thanks a bunch! I had the wrong link inserted :P

Sunny ,
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Holy shit, I know where to apply for a job next time 😅

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Thanks for helping out! the command u gave me, plus opening one of the files gives the following output, I dont really know what to make of it;

buzz@fedora:~$ sudo lsof | grep '/var/tmp/'
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
      Output information may be incomplete.
podman    10445                            buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867465454    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10446 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867399918    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10447 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867399918    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10448 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867399918    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10449 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867399918    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10450 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867416302    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10451 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867416302    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10452 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867416302    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10453 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867432686    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10454 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867432686    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1
podman    10445 10455 podman               buzz   15w      REG               0,41   867432686    2315172 /var/tmp/container_images_storage1375523811/1

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aha! Found three volumes! had not checked volumes uptil now, frankly never used podman so this is all new to me... Using podman inspect volume gives me this on the first volume;

[
     {
          "Name": "e22436bd2487a197084decd0383a32a39be8a4fcb1ded6a05721c2a7363f43c8",
          "Driver": "local",
          "Mountpoint": "/var/home/buzz/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/e22436bd2487a197084decd0383a32a39be8a4fcb1ded6a05721c2a7363f43c8/_data",
          "CreatedAt": "2024-03-15T23:52:10.800764956+01:00",
          "Labels": {},
          "Scope": "local",
          "Options": {},
          "UID": 1,
          "GID": 1,
          "Anonymous": true,
          "MountCount": 0,
          "NeedsCopyUp": true,
          "LockNumber": 1
     }
]
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I've never personally used Gnome so fotm know how to navigate it. But I am sure this is something you should be able to do disable. I'd look either in shortcuts, workspace or gesture settings maybe?

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I'd jump into their Discord to ask for advice regarding this.

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Yeah it is what it is... peronsally use Vencord(has flatpak) that has stripped out the discord telemetry and added features :)

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