GliNet makes great openwrt based devices, they have their own more userfriendly front end, but allow power users to enable acess to the standard openwrt features and packages under the hood.

The game works fine if you use a cracked version

If you dont torrent often you probably arent really needing port forwarding. I use mullvad and i torrent things all the time with zero issues.

Maybe suggest the install a fork instead, extragram and ayugram are pretty nice.

Just make sure they understand that telegram is a social network like tiktok or Facebook and not a secure chat application.

I used windscribe for a couple years before eventually moving to mullvad.

Things I like about WS: great price, good speeds and good server access.

I would recommend them as a budget option

Last time I checked its the politicians that try to censor and control the internet, pretty hard to avoid it.

How is simplex going to turn a profit for the people who’ve currently invested in it? This is why things get enshittified, they have vulture capitalists helping them start out and no one thinks about it till one day it comes time to pay the piper and features start getting broken, ads get shoveled in, and unless enough money is generated the app will eventually fail.

I hope simplex finds a way to go non profit, until then I can’t trust their business model to not shift in the future.

What’s this about riseup getting into trouble? I’ve been with them for over a decade now and it’s first I’m hearing about any trouble.

I’m a big fan, especially because it not only makes my “profile” much harder to identify, it also costs the advertisers more. Anything that harms advertising is a good thing IMO.

Thats not a useful feature so advertising it is pretty sus, i wouldnt trust vpn ads from youtube

I use the name Johnny Incognito on everything I register, has not been a problem with namecheap. If you want to follow the rules then you should use your real name but its not like they are gonna ask to see ID or care at all unless you have something else going on to draw attention to it.

The best you can do is freeze them, you just have to do each on separate on their respective websites.

is there a good tv focused android rom you know of that would justify unlocking it? i havent found any that dont act like a phone and require a mouse to use. i like the stock ONN over others because it was so easy to debloat without needing a new rom but i def understand wanting to have full control over everything too.

ONN tv from walmart with all the bloat removed by adb and projectivity laauncher. you will not find a better option for under $30

Absolutely, my suggestion was just for folks who have apps that still require play services, not everyone can avoid it, but you can minimize usage if you do need them.

Not all of them can disable google play service apps

Even if apps you use depend on play store one of the things you can do on GrapheneOS is temporarily disable it and only turn it back on when apps refuse to run, another option is just keeping those apps in a separate work profile.

That applies to pretty much all desktop apps, your browser profile can be copied to get access to all your already logged in cookie sessions for example.