P2P enabled

Mullvad does not support port forwarding.

If you are torrenting without seeding (requires port forwarding) you are the reason free (community seeded) torrenting sucks now.

P2P enabled

Double checked and ivpn no longer supports port forwarding. Anyone torrenting without seeding is why free (community seeded) torrenting fucking sucks now.

Yes in order to “seed” the files you have downloaded you need to port forward your file sharing software’s ports.

Basic torrenting etiquette is at least 1:1 ratio if we don’t want free easy access to (free) torrents to degrade (too late honestly, we’re already there). Pressure from Hollywood to block port forwarding contributes in this degredation.

(Paid) Private trackers have their own ratio rules and you will actually get booted if you don’t follow them.

Yes its pretty fast in my experience. When I had a 1Gbps fibre connection I regularly saw speeds of 28MBps (MB not Mb, so like over 200Mbps) downloads on steam (so from a single source), I don’t recall what my max was when torrenting multiple large files consecutively, but for example a 1080p movie took like 45 seconds. Their compatibility with my docker setup on my server was pleasantly good after many failed attempts with other VPNs.

Mullvad sounded like a good option to me, both pricewise and privacywise, but was a non-starter due to them folding to Hollywoods pressure and disallowing port forwarding. Anyone who torrents without port forwarding and sharing back what they get at least 1:1 is a scab IMO.

Unfortunately I only have a (somewhat tenuous) mobile 5G data connection these days, but here is a fresh speed test result showing about 60 Mbps (Mb this time, not MB) while connected to AirVPN. I ran a few and they averaged 30-60Mbps. Exact same speeds without it on, but with slightly lower ping, about 85-90 ping, but surprisngly higher jitter around the 85-90 too when not connected 🤷‍♂️. You’ll have to take my word for it that its similar speed without it connected since I don’t want to share my actual IP results.

I believe speeds depend on which server you connect to, but they don’t implement any throttling on their end, exept an even reduction in allocated speed if a single server’s connection becomes saturated. For example if everyone in one region decided to connect to one specific server, it may saturate its network connection and everyone’s share of the total bandwidth would reduce. (I personally have not seen this happen, or anywhere near it on any of the servers I regularly connect to). I believe normies that use their default app (Eddie) have access to better features like automatic server switching so I imagine they prevent this from happening with some sort of load balancing.

AirVPN. Only trustworthy VPN left that doesn’t discriminate traffic and allows port forwarding. You know they’re good cause they barely advertise at all.

I don’t use Eddie, their client, but just import my config into network-manager on linux. Works with openvpn and wireguard (wg-tools installed on fedora).

I use WG Tunnel app from fdroid on android.

Protons support for linux for all their products is dogshit and thats how you know they don’t actually give a shit about privacy. If they are happy pushing their customers to stay on windows spyware then obviously they don’t really give a shit

Airvpn is great. One of the last VPNs that doesn’t throttle traffic for P2P. Allows port forwarding.

Proton is the most obvious honeypot I’ve ever seen

LingQ is Canadian; heard about it on c/buyEuropean community.

Unfortunately the app is closed source and only on playstore, so won’t use that on my main profile. Could install it on my sandboxed “google” profile, but then I’d be much less likely to just quickly do some learning.

The web functionality is pretty broken on both Firefox mobile (especially) and vanadium.

I get a very uber-capitalist, biz-bro vibe from the guy running it, and the site in general. So I don’t think I’ll be paying a subcription for premium. The free tier only gives 20 “LingQs” which if you read the founders methodology, is the whole basis of his learning method, so you NEED unlimited lingQs which is a hefty monthly sub. 🤢

Not sure if I believe their claims of how effective their method is or if they’re just looking to make a quick buck.

Sidenote: If anyone wants to try the OP’s question on hard mode, I’d be interested in any Canadian (notUS) opensource language apps.

Using KISS launcher as my home launcher in minimal mode.

App dock has:

• AOSP Android Dialer (I think), whatever grapheneOS ships
• Molly-FOSS (Signal app)
• Thunder for Lemmy
• IronFox hardened Firefox fork
• Logseq Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

Molly-FOSS is the fully FOSS, hardened fork of Signal that is available on Fdroid via their repo.

Here’s a feature comparison on their github between Signal, Molly, and Molly-FOSS. Basically, the stock signal app relies on some google services, Molly-FOSS does not.

Wow they really paywalled an article that is literally already an ad for a company???

earned is doing alotta work in that sentence lol

Wow the cold weather stats on their sodium battery are awesome! So excited for this to be progressing

This is what happens when anyone with half a braincell can shit out ai generated list websites on “insert oddly specific topic here”

What’s everyone’s favourite? I’ve been using wealthsimple for the last couple years, honestly surprised to learn its Canadian and I don’t need to switch 🤷‍♂️

My exact reaction! World fisheries are already collapsing and he pulls this???

Cause they are prettier to look at 🌻

Interesting, so they change the narrative when its posted on social media apps vs on the web…

That is devastating

Just change the name dumbass, this shit ain’t going away in a month like he thinks.