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@ gedaliyah @lemmy.world

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  • No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers

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  • I believe in celebrating every small victory! To be honest, the main reason I wanted to post this is because it was a small hassle and I hope to help someone else avoid it.

    I figure I'm probably not the only one on Lemmy who might be shopping for a VPN.

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  • Spoiler alert, there's nothing about the offer in the link.

    The link is just the general terms of service. Don't use this VPN to do illegal stuff, etc.

    Literally the only way to know that this is not available to existing or previous users is to email their customer service and wait to hear back. Hence, mildly infuriating.

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  • There are a lot of companies and subscriptions that offer annual deals. It's a two year agreement fully paid.

    They even have a login for existing users after accepting the deal. What kind of sense does that make?

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  • I've had similar frustrations with trying to a change a bundle of services. Once you add any service to your account, it's basically impossible to remove. That's why my account lapsed in the first place. I just wanted to remove the unused Proton drive. I had to cancel the renewal, wait for the current term to expire, and then purchase a brand new service with just the VPN.

    I understand they are a business and they want to market their bundled services, but I also am more likely to patronize a company that respects user choice.

    People trust them with their data, their photos, their browsing history, and their passwords. Their customer service policies do nothing to earn that trust.

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  • I didn't miss it. You can pay double as an existing customer on the same two-year plan, which is still a discount from the "official" price. As far as I know, that's not a Black Friday deal. It's just their regular discount that they run periodically.

    The frustrating part is only that they didn't give any indication on the ad or the promotion or the terms that this was for new accounts only.

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  • I'm a previous customer looking to start a new account. I never had any problems with their VPN, and the pricing is fair, but it's hardly the only option out there.

    They could have just labeled it for new customers only and I wouldn't have an issue.

    Instead, when I click on the offer, there's an option to log in with an existing account. When you log in, the price doubles with no explanation. They could remove the option to log in from the deal, or they could have a simple pop-up or explanation when you log in that the deal is only for new accounts. Without any indication on the ad or the terms, or even after logging in directly from the ad, it creates a frustrating and mildly infuriating experience.

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  • Yep. If it said "for new subscribers only," I wouldn't have bothered trying to set it up on my lapsed account. It's a waste of my time and theirs and slightly sketchy.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers

  • Need some help with remote access please.

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  • Yeah, it operates like a VPN. On my wife's phone, I installed tailscale and set it as the "always on" VPN so that she never has to touch it. The same goes for computers. You can have it set as a startup app, and it should automatically connect every time.

    On some devices, if you want to use another VPN, it can get complicated.

    Tailscale only responds to the range of connections that it's in charge of, so it doesn't interfere with connecting to normal internet, etc.

  • Need some help with remote access please.

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  • I use Tailscale. It's much simpler. Just install it on the host and client devices and everything is securely connected.

    You may also be interested in Calibre Web Automated (which is similar but with more features)

  • How do you handle junk email?

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  • There are some tweaks you can usually do on the server/host side as well. That's particularly helpful if you use Thunderbird on multiple devices, such as desktop and phone.

    Hopefully it will be even easier over time to sync settings between devices — I'd love to see filters and signatures across devices one day.

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I remember experts saying 5 or 10 years ago that the increased standardization and centralization of the internet would lead to more frequent and widespread internet blackouts.

    First AWS, and now this. It looks like they're right.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • I think some of those are genetic.

  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • Thermidor > July ×10

  • YSK about the French Republican Calendar

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  • Anyone else?

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  • I came up with the perfect solution to this but I didn't write it down

  • moving from nextcloud to opencloud

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  • Why use a software that requires an involved workaround when there is software available that already does it?

    Nothing against NextCloud, buy it's not the only solution available, and people have different needs.

  • moving from nextcloud to opencloud

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  • They have similar licences.

    NextCloud server is AGPL 3.0

    OpenCloud server is Apache 2.0

  • moving from nextcloud to opencloud

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  • Not OP, but having files and folder structures accessible in the OS helps with a lot of tasks and interoperability.

    If I want to add media files to Jellyfin, etc, I can't just drop them into the video folder remotely because I have it mapped to a particular folder on the drive. If I want to make a copy of a large folder, I first have to mount the cloud as a "remote" drive, then do the operation from there.

    It's much easier to access files and folders outside of a database if they are needed for anything outside of the cloud service. I know that there may also be some security and efficiency factors that make a database favorable, but in terms of ease of use, it is just more effort to use a fileserver that operates through a database.

  • good insoles/other pain management for standing job?

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  • My wife had unbelievable pain in her feet, especially during pregnancy. We tried a lot of things before going to a foot doctor. It's not necessarily the cheapest thing in the world, but they have a lot of neat toys that can analyze your individual foot and create custom insoles. It's an easy investment in your health.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    I Built A Bouncing DVD Screensaver Machine from LEGO...

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What's the best chat to self host?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Using a Raspberry Pi to hide from my ISP

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Taskmaster

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Best camera and doorbell setup for home security?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Does blocking javascript make web browsing safer?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Count on it.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Automating Restic backups

    feldspaten.org /2025/03/24/Automatic-backups-with-restic-and-systemd-services/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    OwnCloud CardDAV is frozen

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why does stuff move in a parabola on earth but in an ellipse in space?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How to use a domain I own to self-host services?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is the strangest math that turned out to be useful?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Where do you keep all your cheesy jokes?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Pudding some thought into it

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Olé

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Solved

    Docker is renaming a mounted drive

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How to move OwnCloud data? (Solved)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are the dangers of an out of date phone?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks?