Correct.

With normal split tunneling you can normally do something like this anyways, but it can be finicky to configure, and easy for something like DNS, etc to access the internet without your VPN in the middle. And sometimes if your VPN fails to connect, you could be connecting without your VPN.

By using docker with gluetun + qbit (I believe docker images for this setup exist already) you can force it to use only your VPN, and if the connection fails then your bittorrent client can’t connect. With gluetun all your bittorrent traffic would flow through your VPN, but there’s a way it can be configured to allow only your webui port to be accessed locally on your network

And in this setup you can fairly easily use gluetun to force all its traffic through VPN

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Kororon - Eve

I’ll happily say I must have overlooked something, but I did try using update-alternatives. I don’t remember all the nuts and bolts from the start, but it involves python3 and distribution upgrades. I spent a good number of nights over the years trying to unmess it up, and am happy to never think about it ever again.

Installed python3 before it was made the native python on the dist. Half broke everything, including apt & python. So I uninstalled it, and then everything was broken. Finally got python3 reinstalled, and lived with it kindof working & awful distribution updates.

I have finally freed myself of that prison last month, by nuking everything and starting fresh.

Its a meme at this point, but I tried to install arch. Ran into display issues during install and couldn’t progress. Gave up and did Ubuntu instead.

I know there’s supposed to be some helper stuff out there now to make it go smoothly, but don’t think I am motivated enough to retry ever.

I’ve only just started looking myself, but theres agora online

https://agoranomic.org/index.html (the hamburger menu has a how to play option)

Also: https://blognomic.com/

So much yes. Highly recommend. I could listen to Dan Carlin go on about a topic endlessly.

I feel like using a@[IPv6:2001:db8::1] is asking for trouble everywhere online.

But its tempting to try out, not many people would expect this.

In fairness, I frequently forgot my steamdeck root password, because the need to use it was so few and far between. If you’re always in game mode, then there’s almost 0 reason that I’d need my password.

Many states ban vote solicitation and signs within 50-200 ft of polling locations. I’m sure it’s only for state+ level votes, but it seems to me like having signs saying to vote NO directly on and adjacent to the voting machine for a legally protected union vote should be not legal…

How does deck + phone work? Your phone uses the speakers on the deck for playback?

Learns:

• Screech
• Flail

Reddit has many people who talk about a topic, and it’s searchable.

Daily I google/duckduckgo: site:reddit.com [recommendation] and get a discussion of products or software or question, etc.

Lemmy may have some of that, but obviously doesn’t have as much because it’s ramping. But to make matters worse, searching federated content is more difficult than searching a centralized site.

On the other hand, Reddits internal search is absolute garbage. I think if lemmy works in making an amazing search within the federation, it’ll help bridge that gap and give lemmy something reddit doesn’t have.

Because their intent is to force people to use their native applications. They’re intentionally making it difficult/impossible for third party apps to exist. They’re wagering that their clout surpasses the bad-will they’ll get for the crummy move.

Then they can bombard everyone with “he gets you” ads or whatever the most recent ad garbage is, and get their full revenue.

I too would be interested to know what plugins you use.

I love i3 and have used it for years and find myself fruitlessly using the most common keybinds in windows at work.

But my gripes over i3 are:

• If I don’t know the name of the command, say a specific settings window, etc - then I’m hosed if I need it.
• It doesn’t come with a lock screen by default, you need a plugin for it