It looks like IVPN is pretty similar in terms of anonymity

Yeah, that kind of sucks, I originally bought surfshark a few years ago just for this. Unlimited devices is a +1 for me

Proton unlimited is pretty enticing with the email and drive, especially since I’m using Zoho for free custom domain email, I wouldn’t mind using proton.

Surfshark offered a similar deal that I bought a few years back. At the time it worked just fine for me, but they don’t offer port forwarding (at least they did not at the time I was using them), and they don’t have a Linux GUI.

Damn, that pricing is tough. It makes ExpressVPN look like a cheap option, lol

Didn’t know they don’t have port forwarding, thanks for pointing it out, I did a google search and here’s the link stating they don’t offer port forwarding.

“Port forwarding and triggering could work with a VPN protocol in general, but not with NordVPN. Our apps block almost all port communication from within your device except for the ones most commonly used by popular applications.”

I thought about proton, for about $12/month you get premium access to all proton services, like mail and drive. not a bad deal if you like the ecosystem, but no linux GUI is a pretty big -1 for me.

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Also, it doesn’t seem to be much more expensive than something like ExpressVPN, though that is pretty expensive at about $13 USD monthly. Way cheaper to buy yearly though. In comparison, Mullvad is a flat 5 Euro (about $5.20 - $5.40) per month. Other VPNs seem to be about $10-$13 per month.

I have not tried them, but always stayed away from them due to aggressive marketing that really put me off. there was a good year or two where I was bombarded with NordVPN ads and sponsors, and still get the occasional advert about them. It may be worth trying though, I have colleagues that use it.

ivpn looks nice, it looks like they are taking a similar approach/structure to account creation like mullvad does. I don’t like the 7 device limit though, but it is still 2 more than mullvad.

+1 for GUI on linux.

Just looked it up and found this post (link here) by PIA from a few months ago, looks like unlimited devices is a recent addition to their service.

I think free-mp3-download(dot)net lets you download music from Deezer (correct me if I’m wrong) at .mp3(128 or 320kbps) and .flac. I don’t think there’s an app though.

I wish they finished the UI before pushing 11 en masse. I think it looks okay, but it’s a bit jarring looking at the new UI and having to jump back to old UI to properly do something (like using the right click menu).

Kind of like using the options app in win10 and having to open up control panel for some obscure setting that was not available to change in the new Settings app.

I’m using Win 11 at my place of work and this is definitely a strong point for me. Terminal is so much nicer than CMD. And I literally use powertoys for nothing more than the Win+Space app search because of muscle memory built from using MacOS.

You’re not supposed to post NSFW content, please delete this or I’m reporting you, my dad is THE Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation and he WILL BAN your Minecraft account for this treacherous behavior. You’ve been warned.

/s

Lol fair enough.

I have tried vertical tabs but I could never stick with them. For me it was a mix of muscle memory (moving mouse UP to get to tabs), and taking up too much screen real estate (especially on my small 13 inch work laptop).

Edge in Linux is a crime against humanity.

Repent sinner 😂

I used to use TPB until I came across 1337x. It feels more modern and seems to have higher quality downloads, and more recent downloads.

Use the money you save pirating software and movies to pay for a vpn to pirate them with.

Man I know, I tried linux about 3-4 months ago and it is getting so much better. If I wasn’t on an nvidia card I would probably be running fedora full time.

That’s good enough for me. I don’t ever hit that key combo for anything that I can think of. But maybe there’s a way to unbind it.

Yeah I’m not a fan of Microsoft’s current implementation of widgets. I would just disable them entirely if possible.

I don’t think Microsoft cares since they shouldn’t be making a lot of money from retail keys anyway. A majority of users get an activation key when they purchase their computer. And businesses use volume licensing. A small minority of people who pirate an activation key is not a lot of money lost in the big picture.

Also with the amount of telemetry going on in Win 11, the data they collect more than makes up for the slight loss in revenue.

It’s not activated, if you need to activate it look up Microsoft Activation Scripts, should be a GitHub link

Edit: to properly answer your question, yes it should be clean and uncracked if you download through Rufus.

I’ve always used Rufus to download Windows ISOs. It should let you download the latest major Win 11 release. I just used it last week in fact to make a quick bootable USB at work to reimage a device with 11 on it.