Its simple and I can easily put a laptop or phone or whatever behind the microrouter and have confidence its only using the vpn.
When I travel I take a second microrouter with me to connect to the hotel wifi. All my devices are set to use the microrouter wifi so they never touch the hotel network, only the vpn. Easy, private, and avoids any filtering the hotek is doing.
If your concern is ensuring a killswitch type vpn setup, I do that but in a different and simple way.
I have a GLinet microrouter configured to join the vpn and active killswitch mode. This is 2 clicks in the menu. I connect it to my network via its wan port.
Everything I want behind the VPN gets connected to the microrouter lan port and job done.
I understand! For most of my career its been the same for me.
The “big” switch I’m currently contemplating at the moment is moving to FreeBSD on my home file server.
I do sometimes consider switching my workstation to OpenBSD when I get nostalgic for the early struggle days of linux. Like when you had to be really careful with hardware selection and what not.
But then I remember I had a lot more free time in those days!
Linux feels so mainstream to me now. Some days I’m temped to switch to OpenBSD or something ;)
Seriously, as someone who has been using linux as their daily driver since 2000, I find it pretry amusing.
I never login with the root account. Not even on the console. You don’t want everything you do running as root unless it is required. Otherwise it is much easier for a little mistake to become a big mess.
What does this have to do with linux? You can run that stuff on FreeBSD and go take out your misplaced frustrations on their forum just as well…
hot tip, you can avoid the ls alias by running \ls
why not use FreeDOS to connect to the network directly?
I’ve been using linux for over 25 years and I don’t understand this post. One of the strengths of linux is that you don’t need a gui to do sysadmin.
Pro Tip: don’t make sweeping generalizations like “KDE Breaks Bluetooth” and then claim its happening while including little to no detail.
I’ve been running KDE for over a decade without any such problems. KDE absolutely does not break bluetooth or removable devices.
Now perhaps the way you have set up and configured KDE isn’t working right and causing problems with bluetooth and removable devices. I’d believe that but hard to know what hapoened without any details.
As a category, decentralized vpns are interesring.
It comes down to specific details of the exact provider compared with your own security objectives, to evaluate if it will work for your needs.
I use ctrl-click to select
Same. I won’t pay to eat in a restaurant that only offers uncomfortable seating.
They are suggested for restaurants because people don’t linger very long as they aren’t comfortable.
Thats a lot of bug fixes!
I use Void Linux on my home servers and I really like it. Clean , small, and stable.
As a person who takes a belt-and-suspenders approach to security, I agree with you and I do the same.
When I make a code change, even just to a comment, I run the full regression test suite again.
Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.