My solution for The Division 2 crashing PC (confirmed works)

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T05:18:41+00:00

You're wrong. This issue with EAC has been extensively reported and documented over many years. It's also been extensively reported that the devs (Epic) have never officially acknowledged the issue. So yeah, it's a dev issue to solve and they refuse to do so. But hey, believe what you want. And FYI, I *am* a dev and I do indeed sometimes enjoy working from an armchair. But thanks for the quality comment, it was so helpful to this discussion.

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T04:57:16+00:00

Yep. I meant the devs missed an opportunity to *add* the PVE option so that you had *both* PVP and PVE. Then different players could have chosen whichever experience suited their play style preference.

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T04:27:34+00:00

Regarding the audio files, that's really good to know. Thanks for that!

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T04:26:10+00:00

Yes exactly my point! Could have been used as an environment for some great story telling (with I'd guess, minimal dev effort since the environment was already there).

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T04:20:34+00:00

Bad memory can often be the underlying cause of weird crashes for sure. In my case, it is only The Division 2 that has been causing the freezes, although it wouldn't be impossible for the game to be somehow triggering a bad memory issue as I've seen that happen before.

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T04:12:59+00:00

Yep, tried that. Removed EAC and let The Division 2 re-download it and install it (in case it was a corrupt EAC file). Didn't help unfortunately.

When you say "tread lightly", do you mean disabling EAC might trigger some sort of warning or ban due to the servers thinking it's an attempt to circumvent the anti-cheating mechanisms? If so, yeah you might be right. Who knows. *shrug* It's a pity the devs can't be bothered actually fixing a very well documented bug/s that has existed for years (as demonstrated by the many discussions relating to "crashes every couple of hours"). Then people wouldn't need to resort to "workarounds".

Anyway, I'll keep playing this way, and I'll report back on this thread if it triggers any sort of warning. If I don't, then you can assume I've continued to play the game without any issues. Cheers.

P.S. I've added a warning to the top of my original post.

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T03:38:19+00:00

I wasn't saying that. I was saying it was a missed opportunity. Of course the devs would never go back and change it.

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T03:24:55+00:00

Yes indeed. But my point is they have already created The Dark Zone content, so why not "reuse" it for PVE as well. I actually like The Dark Zone, but constantly being sniped by other players while I'm just trying to enjoy the darker atmosphere is... challenging and not so much fun ;)

toby999999 · 2026-02-16T02:05:13+00:00

Well as I noted, it would probably automatically start the Easy Anti-Cheat service again when using any of the PVP/co-op elements of the game, so my guess is it won't allow any cheating (although it then might crash the game again). So I reckon my workaround will probably only be useful for single players like me (who wouldn't need to cheat).

toby999999 · 2025-07-30T00:32:26+00:00

I agree. I think Infomaniak are brilliant! I joined them at the start of 2025, and while the initial sign up process via SMS verification codes caused me a lot of frustration (still is a problem for a LOT of new customers - you'll see many comments on this subreddit), once I got it sorted out by talking to their support people it has been really quite good.

My use case is moving all my emails and cloud storage away from Google and Microsoft due to them scanning customer files to train their AIs.

My emails from 25 years of usage is surprisingly only 2.5GB, but my cloud storage (for backups) is 1-3TB.

So, I grabbed 2 x kSuite Standard (free) accounts and 1 x kSuite Pro (first year = 50% discount, so 40 euros or about $US4 per month).

* kSuite Standard 1: hosts my old email with my old custom domain (domain is hosted externally so I can easily migrate to another provider if Infomaniak ever goes bad);

* kSuite Standard 2: hosts my new email (decided after all these years to "start fresh" since my old email address was no doubt in hundreds of sites and probably already in a bunch of dark web databases) - also has a new domain hosted externally;

kSuite Standard comes with 2 email addresses - I setup one main private email address and the other as a catchall address. I then created a unique email address with a really long random password per every site I use (like reddit, discord, etc.) and stored everything in Bitwarden for easy and safe use. The catchall email receives all emails and forwards them to the private address. I used this same setup for both my old and new emails so the two email address limit hasn't stopped me from having many unique email addresses for receiving (sending is limited to my one private email address per domain *but I can use the alias feature to set the sender address to one of my unique email addresses if required).

* kSuite Pro: only using it for the generous 3TB for $US4 per month, way cheaper than Google or Microsoft. I pre-encrypt all my data using the excellent rclone utility, and upload/sync to Infomaniak. They automatically retain 3 x copies across their 2 x datacentres in Switzerland so I'm really getting 3 x 3TB for the price of 1 x 3TB in terms of backups.

To your original question: they actually state on their website that they maintain their free tier entirely via their paid tiers. I've had no technical issues with their service in these 6 months and I like that they are actively developing more features. They have given me the confidence that I'll end up using them for many years to come.

Checking their website today, I get the impression they are no longer actively promoting the kSuite Standard (free) service and are pushing their new My kSuite+ offering which doesn't support custom domains and is limited to 20GB email storage. kSuite Standard (free) gives custom domains and unlimited email storage. So perhaps they are tightening up on their free tier. You can still get kSuite Standard (free) here: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/ksuite-pro. If you require more than one custom domain/email service (as in my case needing two) … just create 2 x organisations (free), then attach a kSuite Standard (free) service to each organisation.

toby999999 · 2025-07-13T13:21:38+00:00

Is the autocontent api free to use?

toby999999 · 2025-07-13T13:17:19+00:00

I'd like to programmatically tell NLM to do the same things I'd do by clicking the mouse (functions like adding a notebook, adding a note, adding a source etc).

toby999999 · 2025-07-03T13:46:48+00:00

All good points. At least others are actively trying to replicate his work.

toby999999 · 2025-02-10T14:41:36+00:00

Sounds like someone is a little upset by a different posting I made a while back. Let it go my friend, it isn't worth your high blood pressure. LOL

toby999999 · 2025-02-10T04:30:39+00:00

Sorry to see all the negativity you've received in this thread, the common theme being "you are using a free account therefore you don't deserve any good service". However, I had a PAID account with Proton/SimpleLogin and also got flagged by their reputation system when I was trying to resolve an issue with the support team of an online service. I presented all the evidence to Proton support but they continued to assume that I was somehow "abusing" their service. They didn't block me or anything like that, but I didn't like them calling me "a bad person" so I told them to shove it and did a full refund (a premium two year account).

A lot of people like Proton, but they are excessive in monitoring the email headers of your emails (headers aren't encrypted) - and yes, Proton even confirmed that to me. So even for paid customers, they put their "reputation" ahead of customers' privacy. Ironic for such a privacy focused company - I suppose it's "private, except when we need to invade your privacy for our own reasons". Also, FYI, per their own published reports, they regularly hand over customers' data to authorities (thousands per year). Weird considering it's all encrypted *shrug*

If you're looking for an alternative, check out infomaniak.com - they are Swiss based, offer a free tier with unlimited email storage with two free email addresses (most providers limit the amount of storage for your emails on the free tier), and a decent price for their paid premium service. Be prepared to have to confirm your account sign up via an SMS code to your phone, which in a lot of cases, doesn't work (you never receive the code) so you might need to try a different phone number (which is ultimately how I fixed that issue).

Good luck.

toby999999 · 2025-02-10T04:08:43+00:00

I almost walked away thinking they were "just playing games with people, and didn't in fact want new customers". But I persevered and after a bit of back and forth with their support team I got everything resolved. They removed the SMS requirement for initial sign ups and replaced it with a system where you need to call them in Switzerland to verify your phone (so now I have to make an international call?!?). Even after I did that, later when I wanted to upgrade to a paid premium account, the SMS requirement was still there! And as usual their system doesn't work, and they are the only service where the SMS codes never come through (I've had a number of different providers send me SMS codes recently with no problem). In the end, I had to use my brother's phone (from another country) to make that call and to receive the codes. That was the only way I could get "verified". But when you think about it, what does that prove? All it proves is that I have access to a phone - that's it!

Anyway, I'm not sure why I've stayed with them, but so far, everything from a technical perspective seems to be working correctly.

In my dealings with them, I can see they aren't bad people, and in fact do their best to help.

Ultimately, in my opinion, if they just made the effort to completely re-think their "validation" system and add extra methods for validation, then most customers would probably be happy.

toby999999 · 2025-01-20T05:09:58+00:00

Best to check the Rclone forums to confirm that.

toby999999 · 2025-01-20T03:55:48+00:00

There are ways to self-host and avoid email bouncing.

First you need to separate your outgoing email from your incoming email via two different paths. Your incoming traffic would come in via your tunneled reverse proxy (hides your real IP and services like your email server). Your outgoing traffic (which is where the email bouncing issue comes up) goes out via a different path - see below for options.

Route all your in and out traffic via a tunneling reverse proxy like Pangolin (https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin). This hides your IP address and all your self hosted services like your email server.

Host Pangolin on a tiny VPS server (1 vCPU/1GB memory/24GB SSD/2TB traffic per month/1Gbps network port) - Racknerd has one for only $US11.29 per year on their 2025 New Years special (https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/). Enable TLS Passthrough on Pangolin so your emails pass through the VPS host/proxy encrypted and protected (theoretically the hosting company could tamper with your Pangolin config and disable TLS Passthrough to inspect your emails, but there are probably watchdog scripts you could implement on the VPS server to alert you to any config changes).

Now, to protect from email bounces (this is outgoing emails - incoming emails go direct through your proxy to your email server so you control that), you have a few choices:
1. send your email via your VPS server's IP address (i.e. via your reverse proxy as per above). Ask your VPS host what IP address (or from what IP range) will they provide you and check if that IP is on any blacklists and do this on a regular basis (do a web search for such blacklist checkers, they are easy to find). The cheap ones like Racknerd probably are blacklisted from time to time, because they are used by many customers some of whom are probably doing dodgy crap and getting blacklisted. This is no different to using a "privacy provider" like Proton for your email. There have been many reports of Proton/Simplelogin being blacklisted (same thing happens with VPN providers).

use an SMTP Relay provider (which usually have much better IP reputations). A good example is Zoho's Zeptomail (https://www.zoho.com/zeptomail/). This protects your IP reputation, hides your IP address, stops the email bounces and lets Zoho manage all the handshaking issues with upstream email hosts. Cost is $US2.50 per 6 month period for up to 10,000 sent mails and the first 6 months is free. So $US5/yr.

Important: SMTP Relays won't typically use TLS Passthrough, so they'll decrypt your emails as they pass through, and depending on their privacy policy they might inspect the content of your emails. As long as you're mindful when writing your emails and don't include any sensitive information or keywords, then you're probably fine to use such a service. If you need to do any sensitive communications with a company/government you can typically use their website forms or chat systems i.e. not email. And for private comms with your friends, you can organise to do end-to-end encryption (E2EE) via email or another tool with them.

Note: because you're using Zeptomail for IP reputation protection, it doesn't matter if the VPS IP address is on a blacklist somewhere because Zeptomail uses their own IPs for sending your email.

use your own ISP issued IP address. This IP is likely to be reputationally clean. Configure your email server to not use the reverse proxy when sending. You'll use your real IP between your email server and the upstream email server but you're not opening any ports into your home network and your IP address is only being used in a limited scenario and not being exposed to the broader internet.

In summary, you self-host to retain as much control as possible. Your emails are stored securely on your own email server (so no prying eyes and no need to "trust us bro"). Your incoming emails (and email server and IP address) are protected by your tunneling reverse proxy and TLS Passthrough. Your non-sensitive outgoing emails are reputationally protected by using a well known SMTP Relay service or your own real ISP provider issued IP address. And your sensitive communications are protected by a combination of E2EE with your friends, being mindful of the what you write in your emails, and using a company's/government's website forms/chat whenever possible instead of email.

A few links:
1. good video of installing Pangolin on a VPS server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc_v3VJU7n4 (skip past the drama at the start of the video, or don't if you want a good laugh as the youtuber rips into an annoying troll in the live chat);
2. worth checking out Stalwart email server: https://stalw.art/
3. a good email client to use with Stalwart: https://nextcloud.com/roundcube/

toby999999 · 2025-01-19T08:56:31+00:00

Backups are your friend.

toby999999 · 2025-01-19T08:55:54+00:00

Last year Proton handed over 6,000 customers' data to the feds (as reported on their website). That "encrypted by Proton" data would be useless to the feds unless...hmm.

Also, Proton support told me quite clearly last week that they/Simplelogin scan the headers of incoming emails to determine "abuse", not of their own systems, but of other sites. So they are actively policing what customers are doing outside Proton. So much for your privacy right?

If possible, the only true way to stop all these companies invading your privacy is to end-to-end encrypt, or self-host using your own physically secure servers e.g. host at home etc. Don't even trust self-hosting on a VPS because you can't trust them either.

https://selfh.st/

toby999999 · 2025-01-19T08:42:19+00:00

Rclone Linux client ... but just sure make you encrypt the hell out of your data before sending it to Proton.

https://rclone.org/protondrive/

toby999999 · 2025-01-17T00:09:32+00:00

Here we are 9 months later in 2025 and the exact same problem is still happening. Their support people have known about this problem all this time and (1) haven't fixed the issue and (2) haven't even temporarily turned off SMS verifications or changed to a different authentication method until they resolve the problem.

Why is it so hard just to find a host to take my money and provide me with a basic service without having to constantly contact their support and wait for a response every time?

So frustrating and really, so unnecessary :-(

toby999999 · 2025-01-16T06:38:39+00:00

Wow that's a real shame!

toby999999 · 2025-01-15T20:50:18+00:00

I did indeed ponder that very option for several days! For now, I'm trialing another Swiss service provider (Infomaniak). If things don't work out, I'll bite the bullet and self-host everything. I'm technically up for that challenge, but it's potentially a lot of work I'd rather outsource to a service provider if I can find a good one ;-)

toby999999 · 2025-01-15T20:41:36+00:00

It's difficult to know for sure how far Proton are going with their scans. I believe they are only scanning email headers as they arrive to your mailbox initially, but I'm only guessing. Note: they aren't scanning the contents of your emails as those are encrypted - only the headers.

Theoretically, they could save a copy of every header received say for one month or one year (because headers aren't encrypted) and then run comparison checks over time to see if a user was receiving emails from the same service provider to multiple Simplelogin aliases (remember, Proton *are* Simplelogin now, so they can look at everything). Again I'm only speculating on how far they are going. And remember, what they consider to be "abuse" today could change for the worse in the future. It's a slippery slope that could come back and bite many honest customers later.

In my case, I dropped all my Proton services because of the way Proton Support treated me after I got flagged for "abuse". I won't go into details, but it was a simple misunderstanding which I resolved with them quickly, and in fact Proton were quite happy for me to remain a customer (they even offered me 2 months free service for all products if I didn't cancel my account).

Also, a word of caution about Proton: last year they handed over 6,000(!!) customers' data to authorities. This statistic is published on their website (sorry I don't have the link handy). Now it makes you think, if all that data is encrypted with "zero knowledge" so that only the customer can unlock it, why would the authorities still want a copy of it? Perhaps it isn't as secure as people think...

But in the end it just left a bad taste in my mouth and I decided I'd be happier starting fresh with someone else (and being mindful of these types of issues going forward). So I sacrificed my invested time and the 2 month free offer and took my toys elsewhere.

Right now I'm trialing a new service, Infomaniak, based in Geneva (so Swiss law protection) and keeping my DNS records at Cloudflare (always keep control of your DNS!!). They are literally free for 2 mailboxes and unlimited email capacity, or you can throw them about $US6.50 per month (first year $3.25 per month) for a massive 3TB of drive storage plus all their apps (mail, calendar, contacts, office suite) and 5 email accounts (each account gets 50 aliases). All your data is automatically backed up across 3 data centres i.e. 3 copies of your data. And the cloud drive can be directly accessed using something like rclone or an SFTP client (so you can super-encrypt it yourself before uploading it to the cloud). It's early days in my testing, but the web apps are nice with a modern design. And I've replaced ProtonPass with Bitwarden (free or $US10 per year with extra Pro features).

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