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They can’t read the contents of the traffic but they can tell it’s a VPN

They don’t really ban them, but there is deep packet inspection where they may throttle the connection or in my experience, cut it off after a period of time. Sometimes they block them during national occasions. I could probably try something better than OpenVPN. I only use it for personal use anyway and I am a foreigner, so they really wouldn’t care (if anything, it’s kind of expected waiguoren behaviour). If you are roaming on a foreign sim card and using mobile data, there is no censorship from my experience. Just needed the VPN for wifi

It is distinguishable via deep-packet-inspection, China uses this

Deep-packet inspection exists. They can tell when vpns are being used generally. They kept shutting off my VPN in China ☹️

You sure it’s secure? How are you handling security? Sometimes AI can neglect security

I store them in an app on my phone behind password protection

Depends on how strong your password is and the environment you are entering the password in

Not entirely related but whenever I told my dad to “install Linux” he shrugged it off. Then I specifically started telling him to look into Linux Mint and sent him a link to the site and he was more intrigued.

Should I invest in nokia lads

Aren’t there enough zigbee devices anyway?

I prefer end to end encrypted xmpp

The issue here isn’t DNS. The issue here is a large portion of the internet relying on a single data centre on the US East coast. Ideally, a lot of competing hosting companies would exist so if one goes down, it’s just one service and very few people notice.

Makes sense. DNS is quite a single point of failure

I think Ian later died

On the flip side, I use Ubuntu and I’m very happy with it. I didn’t like Gnome so I realised I could easily switch to KDE Plasma. It’s still miles better than Windows. Although I did have issues once installing Selenium, turns out it didn’t play well with snap packages which I didn’t know were there (I was using apt-get install)

LFS

Just use Linux From Scratch, trust me bro

Is there anything that’s better that you recommend?

Iirc, 2.0 is more of a symbolic release rather than any big changes