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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the days of your local coffee shops Wi-Fi being a problem or mostly gone. Not the VPN doesn't have a place anymore though. If you're trying to hide your downloading of ISOs from your ISP it's still a perfectly reasonable method. Or temporarily relocating yourself to another country to make a purchase or watch some streaming content both perfectly reasonable.

Of course some of the streaming providers are getting wise to this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

why would I need to hide my terabytes of Linux ISO downloads?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until a Microsoft Purity Enforcement squad is kicking in your door.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Nah, it's all good I subscribe to Linus Torvalds protection services. When the Microsoft vans get within four blocks of my address, They'll drop ship in dozens of fully-armed penguin paratroopers. After the incursion they even send in a penguin based cleaner team to help get rid of the remains.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You don't want their admin to contact you about how you're a n00b for not using Arch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because we see which distros you're using, and we judge you for it.

Gentoo, in 2024? Really? You should be using Arch if that's your thing. It's not the 90s any more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Arch? I prefer EndeavorOS as it lets me easily install an arch distro using a nice GUi, I really don't care about the nitty gritty of setting up my own network manually, i am like 99.9% of people in that regard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have a VPN so I can securely access my home network when I’m away

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, pptp will always have a strong purpose and home. I'm more speaking to the viability of commercial anonymization VPN.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a feeling you are using pptp as shorthand for Point to Point disregarding protocol and already knows what I'm about to say. To anyone else reading this - PPTP is obsolete and unsafe. Use an alternative such as OpenVPN, WireGuard or SSTP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tailscale FTW. I honestly haven't looked at the underlying protocols in years. Was using ubiquiti's implementation of openVPN but it seemed to get grumpy when you connect one user multiple times.

Poking around at available products, I had settled on zero tier and tailscale, I went ahead and tried tail scalefirst because it was basically free for my house. One month in, I had a few decent detectable guys at work join me on a trial there. Full licenses for everybody at work cost less than my Cisco refresh. And makes it so that the office is no longer a critical hosting site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OpenVPN allows multiple connections if you enable duplicate-cn:
--duplicate-cn
Allow multiple clients with the same common name to concurrently connect.
In the absence of this option, OpenVPN will disconnect a client instance upon connection of a new client having the same common name.
https://openvpn.net/community-resources/reference-manual-for-openvpn-2-4/

There's also headscale if you wanna selfhost the tailscale control server:
https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was allowing me to make multiple connections but they were unpredictable, I assumed it was a unifi problem back in the day thanks for the information!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I use a VPN for the same reason I use the Internet. Porn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That’s not what these commercial VPNs are for.