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Downloading Wireguard config files is useful for running the VPN on a router. Check out the GL.iNet Brume 3 “security gateway” device. I’m using that at home and I’m getting 900mbps on my gigabit connection when I check Speedtest.net or FAST.com using Proton’s Wireguard configs.

https://www.gl-inet.com/en-ca/products/gl-mt5000

None of my Apple devices will do iCloud backups or sync iMessages in iCloud in the background while connected to any VPN at all. Proton or any others. Works fine though if you trigger it manually in the settings app.

Edit: Nothing works in the background for me if the VPN is active on the device itself. If the VPN is running on my router then all the syncing and backups work fine on the devices as they don’t seem to “know” a VPN is running at all. (I have an iPhone 17, iPad mini & a MacBook Air with VPN apps installed).

Cleo Abram makes a point of posting optimistic tech news.

https://youtube.com/@cleoabram

Fucking useless and infuriating. From Ottawa… Most, but not all of the 416 is 110 but once you get on the 401 it’s back down to 100 all the way from the 416 to the west side of Kingston. Then it’s 110 till you have to slow down to 100 again through Belleville. Back up to 110 again till you have to slow down to 100 at The Big Apple in Colborne. Up to 110 again at Coburg. Down to 100 when you get to the GTA. Have these two halfwits ever driven on the highway? It’s sooooooo helpful when the accordion effect is purposely induced. I don’t care if the limit is 80 or 130. Just leave it the fucken same all the way from the QC border to Detroit ffs

The sensor for your car is usually hidden behind the front bumper and has fresh air blowing over it as you drive to give an accurate measure of ambient temperature. What would your phone be measuring? Your body temperature if it’s in your pocket. The temperature of the battery is going to spike when in use or charging. Turning the screen on even for an instant to check the time is going to significantly spike the temperature. ANY use of the CPU/GPU is going to get hot. Nowadays the whole phone is a heat sync to dissipate heat generated by everything inside. There’s probably a dozen other things I haven’t mentioned that would make this a bad idea.

I’ve tried it. It’s very slow. The app on iOS has two “modes” to choose from when connecting. One is labelled “Fast (Wireguard)” and the other is labelled “Anonymous (Mixnet)”. The “Fast” mode is still two hops so it takes forever to establish a connection. You get to choose the entry and exit nodes though. The “Mixnet” is 5 hops. Slow af. Barely useable at all.

Do they expect us to believe that there’s 12 tons or 24,000 pounds of chocolate bars in that little dinky toy of a truck? 

I’m on my second Accord Hybrid (4yr leases) and it is hands down the nicest driving car I’ve ever owned. I wish they would just “finish the job” of fully electrifying the damn thing. The hybrid powertrain operates as a pure BEV 99% of the time. The ICE is only there to generate electricity for the electric drive motors and to charge the anemic little battery. Remove the ICE and fuel tank, then stuff it full of batteries and they’d have a winner. That would be especially true for the Civic as it now has the same hybrid setup and it’s the best selling car in Canada. Civics are everywhere! I don’t want a Model 3 but I’d snag a BEV Accord or Civic in a heartbeat.

Does this actually surprise anyone considering Google already pays Apple a bazillion dollars every year to be the default search engine in Safari… I know they’re not exactly the same thing but the two companies are already in bed together.

Kerb, tyre and Hoover are a hard no for me. Two are weird and one is a trademarked brand name (yes, I say facial tissue not Kleenex) I wouldn’t Dyson my living room so why would I Hoover it? We already say fish & chips and we have chip wagons not food trucks. I’m happy with that and spelling colour and flavour with a “u”. Cheque with the “que” is always going to be better than “check”. Lorry sounds silly, I’d rather use their other commonly used term “HGV”. I’ll add that I say trash bin rather than garbage can. Last but not least… it’s pronounced zed not zee!!

That’s Lou’s studio from Unbox Therapy on YT. Article

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