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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

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  • Does it make sense to use --show-error by itself in curl

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  • So based on both the man page and your findings, it’s safe to assume that the medium article is wrong.

    We both see different behavior than what it suggests and that behavior is in alignment with a different, trustworthy source of documentation!

  • Does it make sense to use --show-error by itself in curl

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  • Just try it out?

  • Simplest way to use a proxy on Linux to download from censored website?

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  • From the curl man page: -x

  • is Proton the only VPN providing a openvpn configuration? (preferably no U.S./Israeli products)

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  • Windscribe is Canadian and offers a bunch of options a-la-carte

    Air is Italian and has port forwarding and is on a insane sale right now.

    What router?

  • Easy way to download videos from watch online movie sites?

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  • Get the uri for your video somehow. Theres about a million ways just pick the one you like the best.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • You can’t! Even if you don’t use the cell phone based connections the car still has its own systems to wirelessly transmit data out.

    You could yank the fuses associated with the cellular antennas but they’re attached to other electrical systems you’d want like the radio in every case I’ve experienced.

    Also the data will be locally cached and can be collected when serviced or cause strange failures when it fills up the cars storage space. If considerate, smart engineers designed the car, they’d have different actual systems for the ecu, mcu, tcu and what have you but I’ve encountered one electric where it’s all in one.

    So that’s scary.

    Don’t buy a car made before 2007 and don’t buy an electric unless you know exactly what you’re doing I guess.

    Or treat driving like a surveilled activity you partake of in public.

  • Is there a way to mount/unmount network drive as needed [SOLVED]

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  • Oh shit, you’re right! I assumed the op was trying the same thing on smb and nfs.

    Do you think it needs the “soft” option which makes data loss a possibility.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • You’re overthinking it.

    The password is there to gate access to resources based on who knows a secret.

  • Easy way to download videos from watch online movie sites?

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  • It works better, stays up to date, has better error reporting, has better documentation, is more trustworthy and isn’t gonna become abandonware in the near future.

    It’s probably also faster for you once you get used to it: (if you’re on a webpage with a video you wanna download) ctrl-l, ctrl-c, (open your command prompt, for me it’s win-r -> “cmd” -> enter), yt-dlp ctrl-v.

    I can’t think of anything more chill than pasting the url. It’s got incredibly good defaults.

  • Easy way to download videos from watch online movie sites?

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  • It’s yt-dlp. Don’t mess with any of the front ends, just learn how to type “yt-dlp” and whatever flags you want then paste your url.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • It’s honestly an upgrade to go back to 10 and for me it was an upgrade to go to iot ltsc because literally everything that’s annoying about windows is not there including ads, preinstalled apps, news, weather etc. I have done a few installs of it for other people who want some of that stuff and it can be added back but in terms of clean, crisp taste, those mountains are blue.

    I’ve used everything for a long time and you’re never going to get away from needing the terminal in linux because everything is a wrapper for something you can do in the terminal and if you need to communicate what to do it’s easier to say “type “sudo journalctl —since today | grep /dev/sda” and tell me what errors it’s giving” than to figure out what desktop environment, window manager, file manager, log system, log viewer and text editor a person is using or has installed and walk em through installing and using each of those to troubleshoot the same issue. So any two linux users will eventually triangulate down to the terminal unless they’re discussing things specific to guis.

    If you’re looking to avoid ai, apple is a better bet than Microsoft just because of the money flow. It’s always gonna be hard to get away from ai on the platform that makes its money through ai, ads and web services as opposed to the one that takes a cut of App Store sales and charges for hardware.

    There’s also the positioning of each company in their own words, Microsoft selling itself as the ai computer and Apple selling itself as the private and secure computer. We can’t trust what corporations say, but their presentation has to be believable or no one would buy their stuff and their self talk can tell us things about them.

  • Is there a way to mount/unmount network drive as needed [SOLVED]

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  • Man that makes me feel old, apparently konqueror was the kde web browser!

    So if I access a smb network share in pcmanfm-qt then switch networks my cursor turns into the watch when I try to click stuff in the share but nothing is hung or stuck and I can just click off it and even unmount using the eject icon beside the share name.

    This is using Debian 13 with lxqt.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • I’d suggest you don’t listen to anyone in this thread and don’t switch.

    You don’t want to learn how to use linux, you want to keep using windows and you’re trying to do something about it now because the clock has run out on you. Go to massgrave.dev/windows10_eol and follow the instructions to get esu updates for three years or do an in place switch to iot ltsc 2021 and get updates for eight years.

    During those years, branch out a little and try using a mac or linux on their own terms. Neither will be an easy switch, you’ll have to retrain your muscle memory and you will absolutely have to learn to use the terminal if you wanna use linux but especially if you have someone who can help you in person, you can easily get switched over.

  • Is fastestvpn good?

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  • No. It’s not good. I went ahead and subscribed when it first made the rounds and it’s spottier than other vpns, which means you’ll have a more complex and breakage prone system when you bind your torrent client to its interface and there’s no port forwarding.

    You want port forwarding so you can be discovered by BitTorrent peers who don’t have exposed ports. If you don’t have it then people who are also behind nat routing devices like home routers without port forwarding or a vpn without port forwarding won’t be able to connect to you.

    I would not pay any price for a vpn I intend to use for torrenting that cuts me off from part of the peers.

    I also don’t trust it. They don’t take cash or monero which would be understandable if they also didn’t take other crypto but they do. I ended up burning an old gift card on it because of how sketched out I was. I havent looked into the ownership or anything but it wouldn’t be surprising if it were another kape company or something similar. The website screams “scam” and my trusty “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is” meter is off the charts.

    Even other services that offered lifetime subscriptions in the past were more expensive and that was in 0s and teens money…

    If you’re looking for an alternative, air is running a Black Friday sale that gets you a year for 32 euros and three years for 65 euros. That would include port forwarding on five ports, good speeds and plenty of servers with good uptime (just had to rotate one out after two years of constant use).

    So it’s really between something unproven, offering a sub par experience for what seems like a scam price until it goes under, or something proven, offering a good experience for a year.

    Unless you don’t think you’ll have access to $40 or so bucks over the next year I’d go with air instead.

  • Is there a way to mount/unmount network drive as needed [SOLVED]

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  • You’re asking the wrong person, I use lxqt.

    Tonight I can see if konqueror (the kde file browser still think…) does the same thing.

    How are your network filesystems mounted, fstab?

  • Is there a way to mount/unmount network drive as needed [SOLVED]

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  • When using gnome you’re supposed to not have specific filesystems mounted if they’re not gonna be available.

    The proscribed solution is to use systemd to figure out if those mount points are available and mount them, but that would have to be coming off networkd instead of fstab which it sounds like is what you’re using.

    A script to figure out if the server you want is available before mounting the filesystem would be easy, but a bad idea because that should be handled by your init system (probably systemd as above).

    You could also just abandon gnome and use something else.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • Greetings Englishman!

    They use connections to known VPNs as reported by the infrastructure that handles your requests. Use doh and a https proxy then connect to your vpn of choice.

  • on debian 13.1 I just updated yt-dlp to [email protected] but I still cannot download videos. What am I doing wrong?

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  • It worked fine on bash without suppress warnings. Try bash and don’t use the suppress warnings flag.

  • Is there a software for Linux to make "Windows to Go" external SSD like you can with Rufus on windows?

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  • As a longtime user of windows and linux dual booted from the same disk, former user of windows to go and current user of the windows pre installation environment who uses virtualized cad programs and has moved away from bare metal windows in the last two years: It sounds like you could be moving down the wrong path.

    Windows to go will absolutely be more trouble than it’s worth. I used it for years before moving to vms and the pe or just dual booting for when I absolutely had to have bare metal (as it turns out on haswell + chips this is almost never). It was a headache then and it’s only gotten worse. If you’re not completely confident that you can be your own tech support without the help of the internet and successfully force device driver installation then I don’t recommend it.

    You really don’t need to worry about windows causing problems because it’s installed on the same disk as linux. The bootloader is extremely easy to repair and there are very few windows updates that caused that problem in the past.

    If you will not dual boot, give serious consideration and the ol’ college try to kvm virtualization. If you have thunderbolt then the device you’re using absolutely supports the x86 extensions to make kvm work perfectly.

    Again, I have done what you’re doing and I think you could be making an error by pursuing usb boot over bare metal dual boot or virtualization.