about which distro to use and got a range of suggestions but none of them were arch.

I think Debian is usually the strongest contender here.

This is what i see on connect.

I’d take this feedback to your app dev. Here’s Voyager and Tesseract.

I know it does but you said “That kills the point of LibreTube bruh.” So if you can use a VPN, and there’s no point to slowing it down…it doesn’t sound like disabling it “kills the point” at all, like you first said.

Basically, your two messages contradict each other.

The sole point of LibreTube is to use piped proxies? Odd, you figure they wouldn’t include an option to make their entire app pointless.

It’s just one of many private ranges.

Sure, it’s one of many, but how often do you see that specific (42) block used? I honestly don’t think I ever have, outside of a pentest lab. The 172.16.42.0/24 (not just any 172.16 like you’re saying) block is the default for a WiFi Pineapple. Any other range is usually ok, but the 42 on a /24 granting WAN access specifically would make me (and most people who actually know what a WiFi Pineapple is) avoid that network.

Saying 172.16.0.0/12 is usually for pentesting scummy thing is very misleading…Saying it’s dangerous is like saying every websites using .xyz domain is dangerous(which makes little more sense than this, btw)

You clearly don’t know what a WiFi Pineapple is, because we’re zeroing in on the 42 and you liken it to the entire 172.16 block. And linking every .xyz domain to a specific block (42) that is used by default for a pentest device is even more misleading.

There’s nothing at all suspicious about the 172.16.0.0/12 address block.

Correct. However the 172.16.42.0/24 block is the default for a WiFi Pineapple. Any other range is usually ok, but the 42 on a /24 specifically would make me (and most people who actually know what a WiFi Pineapple is) avoid that network.

I know that’s the point, which is why I said it. The person I replied to asked if they were missing something, so I was attempting to educate them on said point. Then they edited their post to add the /s after the fact.

Most browsers I run into, you can search from the address bar. You can also disable or point to a different search engine, if you want. So you could skip going to the site. That aside…most browsers would accept google.com and not need the full https://www

I say most anecdotally as I haven’t tested them all.

using Newpipe’s own fdroid repo

Better yet, use Obtainium to “get Android app updates directly from the source. Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.”

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

It’s super uncomfortable.

I absolutely get that, but I just didn’t think it was illegal or worth calling the cops for, which the person I replied to said should happen. But maybe I’m being naive.

man stars at you in public? Or, is starring at you? That sounds like some kind of situation in which you could probably call the cops.

Staring is illegal?

Making a fuss then electing the same…isnt progress, its surrender

And guess what you complaining here and then your inaction does, and symbolizes? Pretty much this.

The trick is to pick the lesser of the two evils.

I’m on mobile so can’t see the sidebar…

Then I recommend upgrading your mobile experience to one that does. I personally prefer Voyager, “an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It’s a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too.”

Voyager PWA: https://vger.app/ Source code: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

You’re one out of 254 usable hosts.

Twice the latency for DNS results? Care to give concrete examples? DNS is usually very fast. Twice as long as very fast is still pretty quick, in my opinion.

Its a 5-year old product. With 5 year old specs.

It’s a Pi. Cutting edge (or even modern or high end) specs have never been it’s selling point or goal.

uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb)

I wonder if he got the joke, or was a scriptkiddie who just relies on existing tools without understanding them, and thought you meant television or similar.

“There are no seeding rules…if you fall below a 0.5 ratio, your downloads will be disabled.”

That there sounds like a seeding rule.

I have like 5 years using Niagara and paying for it…

If you would’ve paid for the lifetime, you only pay once and it’s cheaper than annual once you hit 3+ years.

Yearly subscription: $9.99/9.99€/₹120 a year Lifetime purchase: $29.99/29.99€/₹360 (once)