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Having a hard time settling on a VPN
  • Basically saying you download either Wireguard or OpenVPN (from their official websites) and download a config from airvpn, then load that config into either WG or OpenVPN depending on what you got.

  • Using a commercial VPN behind OpenVPN on router?
  • My primary question is whether having a VPN set up on my router will interfere with the commercial VPN on the server.

    No, it shouldn't. It's sort of a multihop, so you'd have pretty bad speeds, but if that doesn't bother you then go ahead.

    I’d like the pihole to be available outside of my LAN. I believe I can do so by setting up an OpenVPN configuration on my router.

    What I would recommend is using a Pi or any computer and hosting a wireguard server on there. If you connect through wireguard (which is a faster and easier to deploy vpn protocol) and choose the local DNS, you will have access to the pihole. But, this is only a VPN straight to your home network, not masking IP or whatever else.

    If you want to mask IP and use PiHole, I am not the person to consult since I just use NextDNS when off my home network.

    Hope that helps.

  • Using a commercial VPN behind OpenVPN on router?
  • I'm kind of confused as to what you're asking on this post. Is it that you want pihole available to you whilst not being on LAN? Or that traffic isn't routed through the VPN? Please clarify, and i'll try to answer.

  • Best VPN with IPv6 & Port Forwarding
  • They've been here a while, just a very small company. Really the only times I've heard them were on blogs (originally where I found them) and on r/VPNTorrents a month or two back when they started to do port-forwarding. For me, I found it to be a solid service, but no longer use them due to the pricing.

  • Best VPN with IPv6 & Port Forwarding
  • Njalla also only has servers in sweden, so can also be a downside for you. AzireVPN is good, and I have personally used it, would recommend you buy a month to test it out and then commit if you like it.

  • Just got my first entry level gaming pc! i have about 30 bucks to spend, what should i get for it?
  • The metro games. It is a survival horror genre, the first 2 games being linear and the last one open world (not ubisoft bullshit openworld, but an actual good one). The story, atmosphere and gameplay are all amazing, specially in Exodus.

    https://www.gog.com/de/game/metro_franchise_bundle - currently 8.99 euros for me, I am 100% sure you will enjoy it for the price, all 3 are fucking amazing.

  • Best VPN with IPv6 & Port Forwarding
  • AzireVPN has pf and ipv6. I wouldnt recommend airvpn because you will not get full speeds, I get 450/1000 at most. edit: njalla has pf and ipv6 as well, totally forgot to mention it - though pf is through upnp, so torrenting only ig.

  • What's the best piracy for music?
  • There's an app on the playstore called "datmusic". It's $6 or so and rips music from Deezer @ 320kbps to full on lossless FLAC. No subscription is needed unless you want to download an entire playlist.

    It feels and looks like Spotify to me, just without the subscription part.

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    What are your favorite resources (guides, studies, etc) to learn about privacy?

    Hey all, hoping we can share some of our favorite privacy resources. I do not believe this has been talked about on Lemmy, so it will serve as a good thread to get diverse takes on privacy, and how to accomplish the mentioned.

    Personally, I liked reading and using these:

    Looking forward to the contributions!

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    Help me choose an email aliasing/forwarding service!

    Edit 2: For anyone finding this in the future, I chose Simplelogin simply (pun intended) because I was eligible for a 50% off coupon. If I couldnt have gotten that, I would instead use Firefox's Relay because it's super cheap and you support Mozilla in the process. People seem to forget that if Mozilla goes bankrupt and can no longer develop Firefox and fight for the current free and open web, we would no longer be able to use the internet as it is, and would lose practically all privacy. Pros and cons still stand, hope this helps you (or anyone else in the future / present) to understand what option to chose, and what my choice was in the end.

    Edit: I'm testing between Firefox Relay and Simplelogin as of now. Thank you all for the help, appreciate it!

    Hey all, sorry if this was posted before, but lemmy search is hot dogshit at the moment, so I cannot really find anything relating to this topic.

    Recently, I have been upgrading my email privacy bit by bit, and am in need of an email aliasing service / forwarding service. I have been looking online for a couple options and I'm currently down to 3 :

    • Anonaddy
    • Simplelogin
    • Firefox Relay

    Now, the main things I wish to know about each are, in your opinion, their pros and cons for a person with a pretty moderate-high threat model. Currently, these are the pros and cons that I have found :

    • Anonaddy (Lite Plan)
      • Pros
        • Cheap at $1/m (billed yearly)
        • Can use Custom Domains (catchall, wildcard, etc)
        • Stores failed deliveries (could be important if my mailbox is full or something)
        • Open-source
      • Cons
        • Only 50 aliases using shared domains (custom subdomain are easily identifiable)
        • Owned by 1 or 2 guys, so not guaranteed to last as long as a company would per se. Doesn't matter much if I use a custom domain.
    • Simplelogin
      • Pros
        • Unlimited aliases using shared domains
        • Can use Custom Domains
        • Owned by Proton (this is a pro in the sense of a guarantee that it will last a good bit of time)
        • Open Source
      • Cons
        • Pricier at $2.5/m (billed yearly)
        • I do not use proton, so compatibility could be a downside.
    • Firefox Relay
      • Pros
        • Cheap at $1/m (billed yearly)
        • Unlimited aliases using shared domain
        • Owned by Mozilla (more than likely will last longer than Proton)
      • Cons
        • They use Amazon SES/AWS, though they have contract to protect customer information
        • No Custom Domains

    I am currently leaning towards either Relay or Anonaddy because of their 2.5x cheaper price (which does add up $12/y vs $30/y), but am very curious as to which you prefer and why. I will not be using these services for anything important (bank, govt, insurance, etc) as those go through a custom domain strictly for those. Junk, random accounts which aren't important, newsletters, ... will go through the aliasing service.

    Thank you in advance, if something wasn't clear let me know.

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    Going to be spending the next week in Calgary, food recommendations?

    Hey all, going to be staying in Calgary for this week (Monday - Saturday) and hoped to get some restaurant recommendations from the locals! I really enjoy middle-eastern and Asian cuisine, but I'm open to anything, as is my wife. We're going to be downtown in a friend's house if that matters.

    Thank you!

    Edit: just arrived in Calgary, pretty tired but thank you all for the recommendations, I'll make sure to try plenty while I'm here!

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