The fact that OP only ever posts or comments about this software bothers me a lot more than them using AI (which is usually a bad sign, but if they know what they are doing, it is possible that they used AI in a sensible way. I have not looked at the code though)
My point was never about the cost anyway. It was about VPNs (commercial or hosted on a cheap VPS) still needing you to trust a third party, and also that the P in VPN does not mean “privacy”
When I said I host my own, I mean on cheap VPS that cost me way less than 6$/month.
But yeah, mullvad is pretty much the only commercial VPN provider I’d trust more than my ISP
There’s absolutely no reason my ISP needs my browsing history.
Don’t know what ISP you have or what VPN you’re using, but it’s just a transfer of trust. Whoever your VPN provider is, they now see everything your ISP previously saw. I host my own VPN servers when I need one, and even then I still have to trust the datacenter operators to not snoop on my DNS requests (almost everything else tends to be encrypted with SSL/TLS by default nowadays)
Also, the “Private” in VPN is about it being for private use, not about privacy
I always love seeing “quirky” innovations
I say quirky as in “there’s already an established way of doing it that everyone is using, but I’m gonna build my own totally different thing”, similar to how Linus created Git because the established way was not good enough for his taste. Who knows, graph-based UIs for chats might be the next big thing !
Sadly, the network effect makes it hard to have people adopt a new messenger (I can’t even get relatives to move to Signal…). I wish Matrix wasn’t such a pain to make clients for. If your graph UI was able to show me all my conversations across all my matrix rooms and bridges, I’d be using it for sure
CEC works fine with kodi on my raspberry pi (kodi on top of RPiOS, I did not try libreElec) plugged to an old-ish TV, and it’s really nice to have. The Pi puts the TV into standby and wakes it up, and I can control Kodi with the TV’s remote
I have it installed for when I need something closer to a computer keyboard on my phone
After trying to run postmarketos on an old phone of mine, I’m really excited for anything that improves support for android devices to mainline linux !
I usually have Debian on all my servers for stability, and run almost everything inside containers for convenience. The few things that run directly in Debian are nginx for reverse proxying to container services, fail2ban+firewall, and wireguard for everything that moves data between servers/computers/devices I own
Debian is already noiriously lagging behind latest package versions (that’s how they make it so stable : they freeze all package versions when they release a new version of Debian, and only backport security fixes).
Either your AI was trained before Debian 13 came out, or it is giving you really bad advice. I can’t think of a single good reason to use an older Debian for a fresh install…
What’s failed about their newest release ?
I started working on a PR right after cross posting this.
Since I believe this is mainly a documentation issue, I’m trying to gather some feedback on this guide in parallel of submitting the pull request in order to have it merged into the official documentation
Can you explain how this is a good thing for users ? From my own (admittedly limited) understanding of licenses, the main difference between GPL and MIT is that MIT allows freeriding off open source project by making closed-source forks.