Never go to a place because it’s popular, if you wouldn’t go there if nobody else was there, you probably won’t enjoy it when other people are there.

If you have a deep and strong interest in a place or a thing, it’s great to visit no matter what. Low season might be better

wekan

Don’t eat a entire box of thin mints.

Science is about empiricism, so i would expect scientists to try out the occult from time to time.

Pascal’s wager with respect to machinery, maybe the toys don’t help, but what if they do?

Inform their family, depending on how nice the local police are - ask them to do a wellness check.

For your personal mental well being, I would recommend going low contact with a suicidal person, they will drag you into their drama and pull you down.

I genuinely think they are. Look at how they frame their question, they didn’t say they were on the verge of suicide at this moment, they just implied it heavily. That is a tactic to manipulate people and conversations. So I think their assessment is accurate.

I know you’re being extremely sarcastic. But identifying you have a problem is the first step to recovery. Knowing you are a way that you don’t like being, is great, now you can form a plan on improving it.

Let’s take the easy example, if you know you’re a very negative person always putting people down. You can deliberately try to find something nice to say everyday. Maybe not a lot, maybe it won’t change the trend, but being more mindful and having an objective is a way to improve. So yes flip the switch. The switch will be very rusty, it’ll require a lot of elbow grease, and you’re probably going to have to wiggle it a bunch. But flip the switch, because you want to flip the switch.

If you just decide, I’m an asshole and there’s nothing I can do about it, then you’re just going to be an asshole. But if you’re trying to be a reformed asshole, you’re an asshole with a heart of gold

If you don’t want to be an emotional abuser, and you’re aware that you are, why not change your behavior?

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

Reminds me of bash.org RIP https://bash-org-archive.com/?top

• “Where ever you go, there you are”
• “We have just enough fuel to make it to the crash site”
• “Ruh-Rouh”
• “Deny, Deny, Deny - Until you believe!”
• “A Rule without Enforcement is just wishful thinking”
• “When life gives you lemons- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
• “Ignoring a alert is the same as normalizing alerts, if it’s important, don’t ignore it, if it’s not important don’t alert for it”
• “Follow the money” - Gripping Hand I think
• “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” - Knuth maybe
• “Once you know something is possible, doing it becomes a exercise in persistence.”
• “Science isn’t what other people say, its what YOU can observe”

Even if it only works sometimes, there is still a use case with a benefit. I.e. speed throttling on tethering

And yet eve with that pitfall there is a valid benefit of using a shared VPN over the hotspot. Specifically making your data look like it’s coming from the phone so it isn’t throttled by the carrier as tethered data. The failure scenario being the data goes slower.

I recognize the problems you list as valid, and yet there is still a beneficial tradeoff decision to be made.

No need to insult me, I both read the GitHub and understand how VPNs work.

There is no point in using a vpn if you don’t care if your data leaks outside the tunnel.

Sharing VPN from a phone over a hotspot, means all of that traffic looks like it’s coming from the phone.

True, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Sharing VPN from a phone over a hotspot, means all of that traffic looks like it’s coming from the phone. Admittedly if the VPN dies, the routing will bypass it. But the benefit here is immense, if you use visible, you have unlimited data from the phone, but very slow data on tethering. Sharing the VPN from the phone, gives you unlimited data on the hotspot. That’s a pretty good trade-off

I use a calyxos device to share VPN, as of a few months ago.

Hotspot & Tethering

• Allow clients to use VPNs

https://calyxos.org/features/list/#network

Perhaps your confusing GOS? If not, can you cite the design decision to disallow this feature? I’d be curious to learn about it

If openwrt can do it, gli-net can do it

Honestly, for your use case, you should just get a older cell phone. Put lineage OS on it, or calyxos… share your VPN over hotspot, these are the only two ROMs that I’m aware of that allow you to do that. This has the benefit that the VPN traffic looks just like for traffic from the phone, and you don’t have to do any gymnastics to modify the TTL, or the operating system signature of the traffic.

Boom, travel router. Very portable, has a built-in battery etc etc etc etc etc

I like GLI-net, they are great, they have great hardware. If you want to buy it I endorse it. If you’re paranoid flash your own firmware. If you use an end-to-end VPN from your device it doesn’t matter what your mobile router uses. However the killer feature here, I think is better supplied by an older phone running the ROMs I mentioned above. It’s just more portable. And you have a backup phone when you’re traveling

Immediately and constantly apply updates.

Very, very, rarely have I ever had to roll anything back. Newpipe I rolled back once.

— After some thinking

• MacOS - Minor changes Number.minor I update ASAP, Major Changes Number+1.1… I wait until Number+1.3… Apple has a history of breaking the ecosystem on major changes, give them a month or two to sort it out

https://www.wireguard.com/netns/

Here is a good how to for wireguard. Most commercial VPNs let you connect directly with wireguard.

Basically crate the interface in your clearnet namespace and then move it to your vpn namespace

Water is not actually touching my skin, due to the nuclear forces…

My body is interacting with the water through magnetic fields