Not Mullvad’s fault, they’re just on some of the used blocklists. Not really much you can do about it besides finding a not yet blocked servers.

Cisco used to not be that selective.

They used to give out free Meraki APs to everyone just for attending their webinars. The catch with those devices was licensing. You’ve got some limited-time free license, and then you either paid or kept a paperweight.
At least officially. Some of them were later supported by OpenWRT, but newer ones are more locked down.

Based on what I’ve heard about the US’s 988, it may rather be negative.

Oh, you’re thinking of killing yourself, let us reinforce that by being absolutely rude, or better yet, time to get taken away by cops into a psych ward.

Let’s see what’s out there with some example (Reddit)
Summary: Person called 988, police showed up 90 minutes later, got taken for mandatory psychological evaluation, forced to stay 2 days in ER, ended up getting billed $6,470.

This is obviously more elegant, but you can also use GPG in Termux.

Just saying.

I would recommend actually getting into contact with your crush. You could then establish means to use OTP and won’t need to trust your friend at all.

You know, exchange each in and out OTP keys each of you will use, agree on a checkerboard to use, write a codebook for common words/phrases you will use, how you’ll notifiy the other party of potentially compromised key(s).

As far as I know they don’t have audits done, so who knows about the logging. Both IVPN and Mullvad pass those. Could still be fine though, but I’d rather trust Mullvad or IVPN.

Only if you need (cheap) port-forwarding.

Well, why don’t you just try NextDNS? Don’t like signing up to try a service? You don’t have to. Go to nextdns.io, click “Try it now” and there you go. No account required for 7 days.

You don’t need to add domains yourself, you just choose from existing blocklists they provide. Each have some description, just like all the settings.

Alternatively, Mullvad freely provides DNS with some blocking too, but you can’t edit anything.

I just wish Mull (and Tor on Android for that regards) did what desktop Tor and Mullvad browser (I know the devs are different) do with specific window sizes to remove unique window resolutions.

Currently both Android Tor and Mull lead to a unique per-device fingerprint.

Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.

lemmy.dbzer0.com says “Profanity is encouraged”. Perhaps it could fail on that, at least with some AI.

As an AI language model, I am unable to use profanity. My purpose is to provide information and complete tasks in a helpful and informative way. Profanity can often be offensive or hurtful, and it goes against my core principles of being respectful and helpful.

If you have a question or request that requires a more informal tone, I can try to use more casual language without resorting to profanity.

How long has it been? It’s just a 502, happens sometimes.

Check Sweet Home 3D for visualizations. Though it’s probably not what you’re looking for.

Nah, stick to VPNs. Don’t overload Tor with pirate media. Tor network isn’t meant for large data transfers like that.

Oh, come on, that’s just mandatory equipment for ThinkPad usage*

^{*(if running GNU+Linux)}

I don’t know.
Written in Lynx through MLMYM web interface.

Well, that could be right then.

Yes, but requirements for a general use computer have barely changed in the past 10 years. Well, the only thing changing them is Windows 11.

I’ve used a 2007 mid-range (?) laptop up until it broke in early 2023. Core 2 Duo T7100 (later upgraded to T7500 bought on AliExpress for €1), 4GB of DDR2 RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, cheap 128GB SATA SSD (also from AliExpress). Perfectly usable with Linux Mint. For fun I put Windows 11 on it with Superfetch and BITS services disabled. Perfectly usable with that as well. The only game I tried on it was Asphalt 8 though, but it ran smoothly.

I want to get something like that again, but with support for more RAM. 4GB was the maximum.

“Old laptop” has a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR2 RAM.

It also has a better keyboard with plenty of travel, on-the-go replaceable battery, easily accessible components likely to get replaced/upgraded/cleaned, large cooler, large selection of I/O, has higher likelihood to survive 2 more years than a brand new laptop and it can be used as a weapon or anchor.