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  • If you don’t need a GUI, rclone is perfect for this. I personally use it with Storj.

  • Ah shit look who’s still up you stupid fucker

  • If you’re just looking for WireGuard with some good support for hostile networks (and easier configuration) I’d probably just recommend Tailscale.

  • 8 hours ago? Looks like you’re the stupid fucker.

  • That lines up with what I know about networking, but on the software side I figured it would chew through memory quick (especially because it’s encrypting it on the fly).

  • I realized recently that my Raspberry Pi 4 has just 4GB of RAM, but while syncing huge files to Storj I’ve noticed it doesn’t fill up whatsoever (even with slow spinning hard drives).

    I’m starting to think for most things I do CPU is more important than having tons of memory.

  • That doesn’t really solve the issue of others near the public network being able to sniff out which IP addresses you’re connecting to. In fact, they could deny service to your DoH provider and force DoH not work (if they did the same to the VPN endpoint hopefully your VPN has a kill switch).

    As for shifting the entity that sees your network traffic, that’s true and you definitely have to trust the VPN provider (and whatever company their traffic is passing through).

  • This makes a lot of sense. I remember there was tons of speculation about AR/VR around 2020 and Apple was preparing their machines to support that if necessary.

    If that was the case, then yeah 8GB is crazy low.

  • My MacBook Air is a personal machine and I don’t run the crazy stuff we have to use at work like Slack, Teams, VS Code. All those apps are memory hogs and the M3 MacBook Pro I use for work has memory issues related to running these apps. They should be lightweight but no one wants to use native UI APIs these days.

  • That is a great argument — I can fathom anger toward this.

  • ⬆️ This

  • Windows users complaining about low RAM in a UNIX environment make me laugh more than anything

  • Yeah I understand for things like Final Cut Pro memory is way more important, but that’s not what I was getting at. For day to day activity, 8GB has served me well.

  • I should say that the MacBook Air in question is a personal device. My work MacBook Pro with something like 32GB of RAM can’t keep up sometimes with all the trash apps we have to use at work: Slack, Teams, VS Code. I very much wish we’d go back to native UI and stop using these insane memory hog apps.

  • Yeah, I don’t get this. I still haven’t used more than ~115GB in years that I’ve been on iPhone. All my photos are in RAW (since supported) and I’ve got a huge lossless (or better) music library.

    Granted I don’t have 100% of everything on my phone all the time, but even my iCloud storage is pretty low.

  • I can’t say VPNs are great for bypassing geo restrictions in 2024, unless you’re talking about tunneling through your home network.

  • Maybe from a security perspective but in terms of privacy, no. SNI can still be read, and just because DNS isn’t plaintext doesn’t mean it’s not possible to see which servers you’re talking to. And like others have said, there’s still a lot happening in plaintext at the OS and/or application level.

  • Eh, I import thousands of block lists into Unbound and call it a day. I like using apps but don’t like being tracked, so a browser extension just won’t cut it for me.

  • This is the right question, it was the last 100% NT kernel before 9x ruined everything.