Pardon the image source, was the first to pop up on DDG

Touché

This is a screenshot from the Morning Brew newsletter. They’re honestly pretty great, love these stock hot takes.

Yeah I can’t help but wonder if this was photoshopped

Love / hate how it’s always the easiest answer. For me it’s always fucking DNS.

Oh for sure, it’s pretty hand wavey, and doesn’t cover everything, but it’s at least something!

Torrent Freak is not a piracy website. They are a news publication that talks about torrenting and piracy. They describe themselves as follows:

TorrentFreak is a publication dedicated to bringing the latest news about copyright, privacy, and everything related to filesharing. We are not a news aggregator but focus on unique and fresh stories. TorrentFreak is where news and copyright issues collide.

For this specific article, they mention that they

estimated based on sample data from several sources, including I Know.

The source article in question:

https://torrentfreak.com/the-last-of-us-is-the-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2023-231225/

Without specific experience, my assumption would be no. Much like when plugging into a desktop computer’s motherboard HDMI port instead of the GPU HDMI port.

👍

To take your train of thought one step further, think about gasoline. Gasoline has a high vapor pressure, maybe even higher vapor pressure than ethanol. Would you say that gasoline is a liquid at normal conditions?

I mean sure, but you could say that about any liquid, or even any solid for that matter (with sublimation). But that’s not really what I was talking about when I responded.

The boiling point of pure ethanol is 78°C / 173°F [1], so it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.

Pure ethanol is very hard to produce because it forms an azeotrope with water in the ~96% [1] range, meaning it cannot be distilled further than that, it must be separated by other means.

Alcohol in spirits is usually diluted because of taxes on higher percentage alcohol, consumer preference, or being able to make more bottles with the same amount of ethanol. I believe using percentages for alcohol began when ye olde England was putting taxes based on the percentage of alcohol in the drink [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof

Yeah they ended forwarded ports on 2023-07-01. I was pretty sad when they did so and I had to move because I loved what they were doing and was extremely happy with my subscription.

Yep, and if you’re using docker, gluetun can make it fairly easy to set up portforwarding, then you can call the API from the qbit container to update the port forwarded setting.

I don’t have a great answer for you, but hopefully I can provide some ideas that I hope can get your ideas flowing

1. Use a config file and use the built-in VPN configuration. Not very flexible, but you can be pretty confident it should work.
2. Use some containers (with docker or podman) to set up a qbit and a gluetun container.
3. Use the new version of the app for linux if you’re not already.

Whatever you do, I hope you look into the option in advanced settings in qbit to a specific network interface so it only works through the VPN. Unfortunately you definitely right that the Linux app is a second class citizen :/

I was on Mullvad before but moved to proton when Mullvad stopped offering port forwarding :/

My problem is that I only need to use the VPN, but I get pop ups all the time asking if I want to subscribe to their all in one plan or buy their black Friday deal. When all I want to do is connect to the VPN.

So yes, even when you subscribe you still get pop ups (and in their apps too so you can’t even use ublock origin to block them).

I mean I assume you have to start somewhere to be able to improve, right? Like breakthroughs with TVs, no one would realistically use a vacuum tube when you can make an OLED display. But if we didn’t start with the vacuum tube we wouldn’t know what to improve on.

To this day my friends know not to call a melt a grilled cheese around me or they’re going to hear my shitty retelling of this.

You can also check out their Wikipedia page for some writing from a more neutral point of view (of course there’s still going to be some bias).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation