The Stack Social VPNs are much more targetted to streaming and geoblock bypassing than strict privacy. I do like the payment system where you get...
I have Roku's registered in both the UK and EU with appropriate VPNs. They are cheap and abundant in the US and you are automatically assigned...
I'm aware of Express VPN. They are heavily pushed online at the moment on all the VPN review sites. I'm not looking for one big provider, I'm...
I realize that but most people don't and it means lax coding and ignorance of some basic security concepts on their side which is pretty bad...
I'm aware of Mullvad and IVPN and several other well regarded privacy centric vpns but my aim right now is to have multiple vpns with some more...
There isn't a lot of recent information here these days compared to when I was more active on Wilders a few years ago so I'm just starting a...
I was forced to open an online bank account just for eBay. No way do I trust them with access to my main account. Among other things, the whole...
Seconded. I haven't been on Wilders much the last few years and I noticed that there isn't much in the privacy sections these days compared to a...
Windows 8 doesn't abuse the "background intelligent transfer service" the way Windows 10 does. Until Windows 10, I never saw my bandwidth sucked...
I did but they were easily dealt with, mostly unwanted apps showing up in the start menu that came with ads. The lack of control is what moved me...
Windows 7 certainly wins in terms of looks. Windows 10 is butt ugly in comparison. In performance, I've found Windows 8.1 to be the leanest and...
There all all kinds of ways to use TOR. I have TOR set up in my router along with 3 VPNs using Fresh Tomato Firmware. The VPNs and TOR are all on...
In general, I prefer uMatrix over Noscript just due to ease of use. I use Noscript in Firefox and uMatrix in any chromium based browsers along...
The main issue I have with using TOR these days isn't speed, it is slower than a VPN but I can still watch Youtube with TOR layered over a VPN....
Did the upgrade on my one problem Ulyana system that took something like 15 minutes to resume from hibernation and it fixed the problem so that's...
I find Mint useful even being an experienced Linux user at this point with some command line and scripting chops. I generally prefer Debian and...
This doesn't surprise me. And meanwhile, I've been writing and copying 100s of gigabytes in 1000s of files to NTFS volumes with Debian and after...
Is the main drive GPT or MBR? If the drive is GPT and the BIOS is set to boot UEFI, it won't boot an MBR flash drive. There is a BIOS option to...
Times and data amounts are not exact. I'm being subjective, not doing a structured performance evaluation. Systems used were Debian 9 and Windows...
Following up on my previous post on finding that Linux worked far better than either Windows 7 or 10 on the Tangent Mini PC I'm writing this on,...
2 hours won't make any difference but being on the wrong date will, it will break ssl certificates and your browser will give you error messages....
Linux can be imaged from the command line with the dd command. The usual way to do it is to use a compound command where dd pipes into tar and...
Epson printers have non-removable print heads and are a pain to fix. In many cases they can't be fixed. Canon print heads are mostly removable and...
I haven't been posting much on Wilders the last couple of years for the simple reason that the interest I formerly had in computers and software...
uBlock + uMatrix is a good combo. uBlock has a lovely right click block element option which can be used to selectively block elements on a...
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