My pronouns are: 他/他 (pronounced: tā) 😉

(or just He/Him, if you are boring and use English lol)

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Cake day: November 7th, 2024

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  • If you are using a Free VPN, the would be A LOT of users using that server, so it looks like a denial of service attack from the server’s POV.

    Even when I used a paid VPN, I still have to try many servers before there is one that works.

    When I used ProtonVPN, it was like 50/50 if it worked or not.

    When I switched to Mullvad and now to IVPN, who have much less servers to choose from, I have to try like 7 servers before I found a working one, and so far it’s been working fine for like the past week.

    Its not a new thing. I’ve noticed it since last year (when I started using VPNs).





  • Oh lol.

    tuta will try to upsell you

    “upsell” refers to a sales tactic, where a salesperson keeps trying to convince you to buy something more than you might need. Basically, you want to buy a $200 TV, and the sales person tells you: “Hey this $700 TV is much better, it has 8K High Definition, Premium Speakers… etc, etc…”

    And then you say: “No thanks, I just want the $200 TV 😅”

    But they keep repeating the $700 tv over and over and it gets annoying. That’s what the user is claiming that Tuta is doing.




  • Also when I connect any modern phone to Wi-Fi not manually set as metered it starts downloading a bunch of random shit automatically.

    That must be a carrier phone, right?

    Usually, unlocked non-carrier phones would download stuff during setup, but after setup, they don’t do that anymore (well, except the safetycore thing).

    It keeps killing apps I want running (I had to use a cheap dumb phone as alarm clock with the past 2 smartphones)

    For Samsung, you have to go to Settings --> Device Care --> Memory --> Excluded Apps --> Tap the + Symbol then find the apps to add. that should prevent it from being killed due to memory.

    Then you need to set battery usage to “Unrestricted” (you can find this in the app’s setting page). Then there’s also another sexret menu to disable battery optimization that you’ll need an app called “Activity Launcher” to find. Search “Power” in the app, then tap “Settings” --> “Optimize battery usage” --> launch it. Then tap “Apps not optimized” then tap “All” then you find the apps and uncheck battery optimizations.

    Its such a cumbersome process, most people would just give up.