I use Proton’s VPN.

Issues I’ve observed: timeouts and extra (sometimes excessive) “are you human” verifications, extra step on troubleshootings if a site doesn’t load properly or at all, sites load slower, connection may not even work when it’s morning in Russia and China or if the server is in a country being bombarded (e.g. Iran’s former allies) or possibly also going through some natural disaster, some sites may hardcode your VPN region to your account if you stay in a given IP too much (e.g. Crunchyroll), and some sites block VPN IPs they know about (e.g. Nijimiss.moe, part of the fediverse, and GameFAQS).

Will take a look. Thanks!

This “blur”/“grease” looks like high moisture in the air. If that’s the case, kinda hard to do anything about it from my experience.

If emails can be received through newsletter, maybe Kill the Newsletter could help? It acts as an email to receive newsletter contents, and hosts them as HTML pages.

There’s also a community for it here on the fediverse, to those interested: !Ollama@lemmy.world

Also, from my tests, it works decent enough even on Android’s Termux, though a powerful phone seems needed.

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Not the first time OP breaches rule 2, looking at his post history.

Wrong community, and your account is only hours old in your home instance.

If it’s a scam or spam, people will dislike, possibly block you, and move on. If it’s legit, try not looking like a scammer/spammer.

Thanks too! Was in a similar situation as B0rax.

If it still turns on, it still has an use!

Dunno the specific purpose to why people tag communities in comments, but since it got mentioned and from what I can see, the community there could use some movement, crossposted there =)

What would your ultimate distro be like?

The one that fits one’s needs the best. Given your frustration with unstable systems, I’d say the best ones would be those that take longer to make major updates, like Debian, Mint and Slackware, as then issues aren’t introduced as frequently, and older ones are better known and easier to fix or even preemptively circumvent.

The most basic version, just install from your distro’s repository if it has one. On Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc., for example, it"s sudo apt install wine.

If you’re on Steam, just enable compatibility, and Steam will handle everything for you, though do note you can only use their version of Wine (“Proton”) when launching through their launcher or calling the executable file directly.

If you’re on Heroic Launcher, there’s a menu for handling Wine versions, including downloading, and using is the same as Steam’s.

Can’t remember other methods now.

Closest comparison example I think is Mozilla/Firefox, since they started being banked by Google, and specially as the money tap was dried, they got erratic at best. Would it seem like Linux would follow a same path? Are there safeguards in place? Are there signs these companies force their own visions onto the Foundation?

Thanks for explaining the path!

I’m around my 30’s and I also struggle to think of examples not at least as old as me. e.e’’

That’s what I meant about horizontal attacks. Iirc that was the term used in the explanation that convinced me to consider a VPS. 😅

…though I still want stuff locally, so studying this type of network security is still in my roadmap.

Thanks!

About studying about operating systems and docker, I think I know what you mean. I had come across some info on docker already, and it sounded like a system image, as you’d get on a VM or with dd, or a disc ISO or disk ROM dump.

Will make sure to look further into it!

I’ll be doing others’ suggestions of going from the basics, to be sure whether I’m missing or not any knowledge. This earlier parts shouldn’t require internet, but I’ll ask once I get to the DNS part. Thanks. 😊