I disagree that users won’t do stuff on their own. They will, but they will allocate very little time to it, on average, especially when compared to a tech savy person. And that’s just because their computer is a tool.And if they cannot make their tool work for what they want to do, they’ll find another way. Or deem it impossible.

also don’t forget that many don’t even have the time and energy

and start off from a fundamentally wrong premise: that people are willing (let alone wanting) to manage their own operating systems.

people shouldn’t need to manage their own operating systems, to begin with

in my understanding OP was not comparing it to simple wireguard

where did you read it that rust obfuscates the code?

you want vmprotect and such for that

It’s up to users to know what they are installing.

Except when all you get is an UAC prompt when clicking the play button, without giving you any information, other than that it wants to execute an exe in a temp dir with a random name.

the kernel level part of that specific thing is preventing process startup after it was killed

antimalware is literally worthless as has been for at least a decade. not even once did I get a spyware (or other) alert for the software of any commercial data harvester company. they are literally bought out and even the blind can see this

to simple wireguard? there are wireguard based mesh network solutions out there

There isnt much to discuss

oh I think there is!

you know what is tiring for fucks sake? that you are parroting your opinion basically, without pointing to any evidence. I don’t know this service, but do you call them rapists because they are known for doing that, or because they didn’t block users that were accused of rape?

I don’t approve of rape and fascism either. but you know, private services don’t make a difference between anyone. why? because they can’t make sure the accusations are true. if they can by looking at your data, they are not a private service.
would you ban encryption because rapists use it too? encrypted services, like proton and matrix? signal? do you think they are guilty of allowing to conduct rape in secret?

even if it turns out the maintainers are rapist fascist fucks themselves, the previous paragraph stands, and I’m interested in your responses.

oh. is this optional? on a laptop it’s a good idea, but on my desktop I wouldn’t want it

when locking the screen, or when logging out?

if it’s the former, how will running programs not crash?

many, many do. what’s worse, to many of them that’s “the internet”, and when I offer them firefox, their complaint is that it does not show news articles…

in my understanding that won’t handle roaming between APs as good as a mesh setup. OpenWRT has a special wifi setup for that

all apps have their own processes, and the names of the processes were often the package name

how the fuck do they see that you have these apps?? Wasn’t it google’s justification for destroying /proc and all resource monitor apps with it that they have put querying of installed apps behind a permission?

the program uploads the information to somewhere, right? just like the telemetry functions in windows. adding the domain they use to popular blocklists would help those who use pihole or something similar to that.

forced to pay? Isn’t it a legal obligation to accept being enlisted?

I love how the preview text for youtube videos is entirely fucking useless

we seriously need to get the reporting domain added to popular blocklists

hostname? MAC address? serial numbers? does "partitionx data also include names and GUIDs?

why would they need these? what is wrong with them??