Some old netbook I guess, or unsupported hardware and a driver default. If all you need is ssh, the display resolution hardly matters.

I’m consistently below 30 GB, unless you include local traffic from my fileserver to endpoints (98% movies that I stream locally via. VLC over smb). And even then I usually don’t exceed 1 TB.

Yeah I had that poster on my wall, almost a year before the movie launched I believe.

Haven’t seen Wicked yet, good to know it’s worth it!

Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.

Edit: https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing (apparently the cheapest is $3.5 - annually)

Wait, aren’t you allowed to receive your salary in cash? As long as your employer deducts your income tax and social security contributions accordingly, there is nothing illegal about this procedure. It’s uncommon for sure, but not impossible.

And that’s the reason why I don’t use it, I need specific websites that access my local time, and apparently whitelisting is not a thing.

Wow, that’s quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so…

I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.

Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?

I can’t see the option on my free account either, despite installing the most recent update earlier today.

You can save a profile as default and click the lock-icon next to the audio and video source, that should prevent changes. (And yeah I still do a test recording either way…)

OBS Studio for sure. It’s awesome. You can configure a bunch of different video input sources, even capture simultaneously from more than one.

Just make sure the camera has a decent resolution. A webcam from a couple years back often got 3.1 MP and a native resolution of 480p and less.

Best video format for recording is mkv (easy on the CPU), then you can cut it with DaVinci Resolve (free!) and export to mp4. Youtube will do the rest during upload.

My webhost allows passwords of all length and complexities in the password set field, but will strip $ and & on the login mask on their main website, like in the top right corner.

A failed login will automatically bring you to a dedicated login.xxx.yyy subdomain and prompt a password reset, but if you use the login mask there instead, the exact same password works.

Is the browser somewhat up to date? In case Chrome doesn’t work, try Firefox or Kiwi.

But it’s quite possible that 4.x is so far outdated, some necessary system routines are simply missing and can’t be replaced.

Even tubular (alternative youtube app) is only backwards compatible to minimum 5.0 -> https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

Make sure that all system dependencies such as Google play services are running the latest compatible version -> https://m.apkpure.com/google-play-services/com.google.android.gms (most likely you’ll have to go to “old versions -> show all” and then try one version per year until you can narrow it down to something that works).

Use Instander instead. It’s a clone that removes quite a few of the data harvesting and shows no ads either.

Hm. Since covid, even my local bakery started taking cards. Even most corner shops for late night beers do. Kebab is usually still impossible, but that seems like the final frontier.

Yep, the one issue with shadowsocks is that you can only install it on end devices, not on a router. That’s the big benefit of Astrill. But anyway, my days in China are numbered, so I’m soon not going to need that anymore.

What was the reason for you to switch from Mullvad in the first place?

I’m using a combination of Astrill (paid) and Proton (free, as a backup) since they are the only ones that reliably work in China, but once I’m out of here and my subscriptions expire, I’ll be on Mullvad again.

No, nothing. Just configure ublock and sponsorblock to work in private windows.

Use it in the private mode of some privacy respecting Firefox variant and done.

I’ll find one for you later, just heading to the office. But from working as a financial auditor in the past, I know that the AML provision used to be 10k EUR for transfers abroad, and was later increased to 12.5k EUR.