That’s a good point. I may just sign up for Proton VPN.

my ISP mostly. Just want to avoid getting a copyright warning from them. Hasn’t been a problem, just being safe.

I keep hearing about WireGuard being better, but also harder to set up and configure, so I went with Openvpn. I’ll look into WireGuard, and see if I’m brave enough to set that up. For the hosting company, they didn’t point out anything against p2p traffic in their TOS. 🤷‍♂️

Since I already have a vps to run websites and other stuff, I just wanted to spin up my own instance of Openvpn on the same vps in a docker container, so it wasn’t any additional cost. If Openvpn doesn’t work well for me, I may just go with a basic VPN like you said. I don’t torrent enough to need a seedbox. I’m just a filthy casual when it comes to torrenting. 😛

Thanks for the info, very useful. I’m generally trying to hide my traffic from my ISP, when I’m torrenting some movies. I’m not doing a ton of p2p stuff. Not enough to need a seedbox. I’ll share/seed some stuff from my local hard drive. Nothing sits in my vps.

I understand that although the IP addresses I connect to can be hidden from my ISP by my own instance of openvpn, it doesn’t hide that my vps is connecting to those IP addresses. I think I’m okay with that. I’m not connecting to super sketchy sites. Generally, I’m trying to avoid getting some copyright warning letter from my ISP. Although that’s never been an issue, I just thought I’d be safe.

My vps has a domain name, but it does have privacy protection where my name won’t show up on a whois lookup. Not sure how much that helps, but I thought it was good to have.

In terms of a good p2p vpn services, it seems like a lot of the usual ones being advertised on podcasts and youtube are bad about privacy, and it seems like Proton may be the only one that I know of that seems good. Any recommendations for good vpns are welcome. I may just go that route if Openvpn isn’t good enough.

I am in the same general region as backblaze. My vps is in a city that’s 6 hours drive away from my backblaze region’s server.

I looked into that, and decided against it cuz I like having a vps where I can also do other stuff with, like my own self hosted vpn. Small stuff.

🤣

Is good joke.

Only downvoted cuz no “/s” at the next line.

Yeah, that makes sense. I guess you “outgrew” Bazzite. That’s what’s awesome about Linux, there’s a distro for every use case. If I were to setup a HTPC/pc gaming console connected to a tv, I’d use Bazzite. But, for my desktop, I run Arch cuz I tinker so much with it.

I’ll also throw in my vote for Bazzite. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it in terms of its default included packages and configurations for gaming. It sounds like you may not be advanced enough to mess with settings to make gaming run smoothly, so bazzite would do all of that for you. They have a KDE version. And it is what’s called an “immutable” distro where the main systems files can’t be modified easily by the user. That will make it safer to those who aren’t sure of what they’re doing. You can also easily set it up to run Big Picture Mode by default, so if you decide to use that pc more like console connected to a tv, bazzite would be great for that. Like others have pointed out, Bazzite has good support for nvidia cards out of the box, and that’s a key feature to note. Bazzite is kinda like an unofficial version of Steam OS that’s ready for widespread use and supports a lot of hardware. They’re doing what Steam is not ready to do yet.

Up to your preference. I do suggest making an alias for it so it automatically downloads to a specific directory.

Someone call Alanis Morisette 🤣

Yeah, Veronica Explains is great. She seems to do things in good faith, and not a money grab. She just really loves this stuff. I think she’s trying to do youtube full time, and I hope she’s successful.

Oh, that’s right, I forget about that. But also, I don’t know much about musl and glibc. But of course, Alpine is a distro meant for servers, so some desktop/laptop stuff I’m trying to do may not work so well.

Since Artix is like Arch but without Systemd, I’m hoping it may be comparable to using Alpine. I’m using Artix Linux with Runit on my main desktop, and it’s been great so far.

I was thinking about getting an ARM chromebook to do this, cuz the Pinebook seemed like a good idea, but seemed underpowered. There are some nice ones like the Acer Chromebook 14 with the Kompanio ARM chip, but unfortunately no one is making custom firmware for ARM based chromebooks right now. Hopefully someone will at some point. Would be nice to have a power efficient passively cooled laptop. I think some of AMD laptops with their U series chips are pretty efficient.

I’ve done this with a DELL chromebook similar to the one she has. It worked out great! Shout out to Mrchomebox for his awesome work on custom firmware.

I initially installed Gallium OS since it was supposed to be a lightweight distro. My chromebook was fairly low spec with duo core intel at 2.0ghz with 4GB RAM. Gallium OS worked much better than chrome OS for this machine. Later on, I learned about Arch, and thought that would be better cuz it’s barebones and lightweight. And yes, Arch made a big difference. And later on, I heard about Alpine Linux, which is even more lightweight than Arch. Shoutout to Trafotin for his video on using Alpine as a desktop OS. Alpine was even better for this machine than Arch. It is noticeable since, it’s such a low powered machine.

Yes, I’m being a dirty distro hopper. :P

I may jump to Artix Linux since, some things I need don’t seem to work on Alpine. My hypothesis is that Alpine was faster than Arch because Alpine uses OpenRC instead of Systemd. Just a guess.

For me, it’s about using the right tool for the job. Sometimes, using full GUI file manager is overkill, especially for copying just one file, and you know exactly where you want to copy it from and to.

And a TUI file manager like mc, ranger, nnn are a good in between level of ui, and is great for browsing files distraction free from the visual clutter of a full GUI file manager. That may seem like not a big deal, but I think it’s nice to be able to see things simply and straight to the point. For me, it just feels nice and less frustrating.

What I like about Linux is choice. And in this case, choice in file management. Pick the right tool, and you’ll get things done more efficiently, and with less annoyance.