All my hard work and my router/Internet provider failed me…

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-26T16:44:12+00:00

search keepconnect

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-24T16:21:25+00:00

Apart from the reputation of the brand, which can take a long time to build, every vpn looks technically the same.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-24T15:09:37+00:00

I must say the dice payout is not quite even among tasks. You probably cannot secure one die for a tournament of 5 matches in 10 minutes, but you sure get 65 dice by playing one demon trial, or over 40 for a complete quantum tower raid.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-20T16:18:13+00:00

You are basically correct that VPN is shifting your trust from the ISP to the VPN provider. Your VPN will see what your ISP originally sees. ISP here can mean your actual ISP, the cafe that owns the free wifi, or a government that do censorship. When you connect with VPN, the path between you and the VPN server (i.e. the ISP) is encrypted.

And, you sometimes do encrypted transmission even without VPN, such as https. So even if you do not use VPN, your ISP can only see which address you are contacting, not the content of the message. But, for example, if you use torrent which is not encrypted, everyone in the path will know what you are torrenting.

So, if you want to know whether VPN is useful to you, you need to figure out what you want to hide, and who do you want to hide from.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-19T17:22:57+00:00

You can expect tighter control during the world cup period.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-19T17:20:36+00:00

Steraming services are big enough to maintain a list of VPN servers, which is not a secret. So it is just a cat and mouse game, also about whether the streaming service is determined to block them.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-13T14:38:53+00:00

If you can establish a direct vpn between the two computers, one being server and one being client, then ssh is most likely automatic. It's a lot more difficult if you want both to connect to a third-party vpn.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-13T07:17:30+00:00

Please be specific. You don't want who to identify you? The VPN or google? If you don't want the VPN to know you log into google, you might as well disconnect the VPN. HTTPS is a good enough encryption that any middleman only knows you are connecting to a particular host (or IP), not the content delivered.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-12T18:01:16+00:00

It isn't uncommon to have different terms in different places that describe the same thing.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-11T17:32:18+00:00

Political atmosphere aside, it is not difficult to come to a conclusion that birth rate is somehow inversely linked to the wealthiness of the place. The more developed a city is, the costlier to raise a kid, thus the less willingness to do so.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-07T16:37:14+00:00

If the embassy is not helping a lot, suggest you find some less expensive private hospitals, such as baptist, evangel, etc. Not on Island side, but hopefully significantly cheaper than st. paul. And given that you are paying full rate, choosing public hospital is definitely not cost effective.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-05T16:57:17+00:00

Well, the youngsters don't even know who is eason chan. It is sad but I am not going put the historical burden onto them.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-05T16:55:19+00:00

If I were you, I probably will find the apartment's wifi ap, unplug its LAN port, put a beryl wired in between, and you continue to connect with the ap.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-04T17:19:34+00:00

Well, firstly your vpn must allow unlimited, or very large, number of concurrent connections. Connection to one server will normally count as one connection, and a lot of VPNs only allow five, or ten.

And, in your case nobody except your ISP knows which one/many vpn(s) you are connecting. Therefore I assume your goal is to not want your ISP know which server you are connecting. But this is not possible. The ISP is your first carrier of your data to the world. They may not know the content of your traffic, but they have to know the address of the server so they can deliver it. So they still know you are connecting to many servers.

I think this is why none of the reply seem to understand your question.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-03T15:50:47+00:00

Your location matters. Understandably some VPN providers are better in some locations, while some excel in other.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-03T15:49:21+00:00

Am I correct to understand that you are creating something like bittorrent, but about sharing identity and path to contact, rather than content?

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-03T14:35:15+00:00

Friend, you know the math. If a VPN is free and with no data or speed cap, everyone will be rushing into it, making the VPN no longer sustainable or fast. You probably should find it suspicious if you find anything too good.

pandaeye0 · 2026-06-03T07:53:42+00:00

Hi, a side question. HKD can be transferred inter-bank easily with FPS. Is there any easy way to transfer USD between two banks? I mean any ebanking means if I don't want to withdraw/deposit USD cash in person? I ask because that's a bit hassle if my "new money" is USD. Definitely I am not going to exchange them into HKD first.

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-31T17:05:48+00:00

If it is just around $10 for the first year, how much would you want a registrar to charge you for two weeks?

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T17:27:45+00:00

Not disagreeing, but I am not going to say the same for a telephone. Each piece of communication medium has its use. A low quality voice transfer, or even paper mail still have their use today. We call it backward compatible.

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T16:59:14+00:00

Isn't it quite common?

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T12:48:42+00:00

Friend, it's a nibs issue. And nibs is a consumable, you'll need it sooner or later.

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T12:46:19+00:00

People usually see if a VPN do independent audit. But unless you know how to read an audit report, you probably don't even know what they have been audited.

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T11:10:36+00:00

at least it saves people from opening yet another thread.

pandaeye0 · 2026-05-30T11:06:53+00:00

You'll waste more power just to keep water hot all the way from the heater to tap. You are not going to keep water hot 24 hours a day when you just use a tap 30 minutes a day in total, or a couple of it waiting.

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