Brickfrog

Ideally cryptocurrencies, that’s what I usually use to donate to FOSS projects nowadays.

But aside from that Liberapay and Ko-fi seem to work fine for a ton of projects… this is assuming the project maintainers(s) are able to set up Stripe to receive the donation money afterwards.

Welcome to the club :P

Not surprising coming from PayPal, elementary OS should really just move away from them. Fun fact: If their PayPal account was banned that means all recent donators that sent them money through PayPal were also banned/had their accounts frozen.

I used to use PayPal maybe 15-20 years ago and used to donate to FOSS projects with it. At one point PayPal decided I was being shady and banned my account. At the time figured it was just my own problem but later on I heard from one of those FOSS projects, turned out that their own PayPal account was banned in the process due to receiving money from a banned account.

I have that bundled for free with a different service and can’t even use it, they are one of the few streaming services that go out of their way to block Linux users.

On the upside at least they let me know it’s unusable when free so there’s no reason to ever pay for it.

I made the jump to OPNsense recently, ended up buying a Protecli to install it on and its been working great so far. For me it sort of made sense since I wanted to have a little purpose built fanless system with Intel NICs, and Coreboot and Console access via USB are nice bonuses too. My original thinking was to try running other services on the same hardware (using Proxmox maybe) but for now it just runs OPNsense and nothing else… maybe it’s better for the network firewall to just be the network firewall, it’s the one thing I don’t want to crash and have an outage with.

But you don’t have to do that, pretty much any Intel/AMD based system with multiple Intel NICs should work with an OPNsense install. The other mini pc vendors will be a bit cheaper for sure, just be mindful of RAM and storage prices right now.

Same, I usually compare the net weight and amount of servings in a package vs the other brands nowadays.

There are definitely brands I stopped buying due to shrinkflation. A few times I’ve seen shrinkflated items on sale later and then do the math just to realize the price is still too stupid to buy even at sale price.

I could ping servers but not load the webpage.

Were you testing ping with the Don’t Fragment (DF) option enabled? That’s the usual method to determine the specific MTU size you need.

e.g. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2440411

I lost interest in IVPN after they removed port forwarding functionality so it doesn’t affect me but it is interesting you’d need to worry about the MTU size at all, wonder if that’s due to their software or maybe specific VPN servers you’re connecting to on their network have different MTU sizes.

That’s interesting, didn’t know that existed. I know OP didn’t ask about cost but I was curious if you’ve been paying for major version upgrades or subscribing for the yearly support? According to their pricing page only minor updates would be automatic for the free installs

https://fydeos.io/pricing/

so you’d need to manually upgrade the system whenever you need a major OS update to be done. It doesn’t seem quite as automatic as OP was hoping for but maybe it’s not a bad tradeoff if you only need to touch it once a year or whatever the software release schedule is.

Seems rare-ish, very skeptical about $3 million rare but I guess the selling point is more about that particular cartridge being distributed with the Nintendo sticker seal vs the plastic shrinkwrap most cartridges had later on?

anyone I knew who had an NES had the Super Mario / Duck Hunt multicart, or very occasionally Super Mario / Duck Hunt / Track & Field triple game cartridge from the bundle that included the Power Pad.

You got me thinking about that, you’re probably talking about what Nintendo called the Action Set bundle, or the Power Set after that, when they were including those dual/triple game paks.

My own was the earlier bundle, what Nintendo called the Deluxe Set, that one came with two separate games (Duck Hunt and Gyromite). We had to buy SMB separately… definitely don’t remember if it had a sticker vs shrinkwrap.

Wikipedia mentions the different NES bundles back then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Bundles_and_redesigns

The popular Vanguard ETFs will definitely have it, they do track CRSP and FTSE Russell (VT and VTI for example) - Both of which adopted fast track rules that will allow SpaceX to become eligible 5 days after the IPO. Unless Vanguard themselves decide not to include it in their portfolios (seems unlikely but you never know). I think Vanguard does have some funds specific to tracking S&P but that’s not usually what people use Vanguard for.

e.g.

https://www.basenor.com/blogs/news/ftse-russell-fast-entry-rule-could-land-spacex-in-major-indexes-days-after-ipo

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-crsp-vti-ftse-russell-nasdaq-401k

That could lead to some interesting outcomes, how these funds look in 12 months could indeed be tied to which specific index(s) they are tracking.

I don’t know Voidlinux but am curious, what GPU are you using? And is your Linux DE using Wayland or X? Nvidia GPU drivers are notorious for having issues with suspend/hibernate/resume. If it’s Nvidia you could try tinkering with enabling/disabling the driver options or the suspend/hibernate/resume services.

These should give you some hints:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland_configuration

https://gist.github.com/bmcbm/375f14eaa17f88756b4bdbbebbcfd029

Unfortunately I don’t know what you’d do exactly to recover from a failed hibernate - the thing with hibernate is that the RAM of the running OS was saved to disk so even turning it off completely isn’t going to solve that, the whole point of hibernate is to be able to power off completely after all. When you get your system back up you should do some light testing with standby, not hibernate, just to see if there’s issues. Or do what I do and never standby/hibernate :P

Offhand I’d suspect a finicky adapter. Does the adapter work with other disks? Does the disk work when plugged into a server/computer directly?

Assuming it’s the adapter being finicky - did you happen to try using other USB cables with the adapter?

When plugging into the system - Does the dmesg output display anything else useful, any warnings or anything? I would have thought it would give you the USB drive chipset vendor/model, I didn’t think Sabrent builds their own chipsets but could be wrong.

Also would try doing a smartctl --scan followed by a smartctl -a /dev/YOUR-EXTERNAL-DRIVE and see what comes up. (those are part of smartmontools)

Intuit really is the worst.

I sort of expect them to conduct more layoffs / raise the price of their other software/services even more to compensate, greedy fuckers. Unfortunately a lot of businesses use their other software so Intuit is sort of embedded there. Outside of work/business stuff not sure why anyone willingly gives these people money.

tried it via tor

Doesn’t load in Tor for me either but I suspect their site is simply blocking Tor. The site does load fine outside Tor in the regular clearnet.

9 times out of 10 these sort of things turn out to be a DNS issue on your end, you might want to double-check you’re actually able to query their IP address via nslookup freedns.afraid.org or similar. (assuming you’ve already tried other web browsers to rule out issues with installed extensions or specific browser settings).

Adding onto the other comments, if you have admin access to your network router/firewall you can configure the incoming port forward itself to only allow specific IP addresses while dropping traffic from any other internet WAN IPs. It’s a bit like using the Jellyfin whitelist/blacklist but doing it at the network level. This drops all unwanted internet traffic to that port at the firewall before ever reaching the Jellyfin software. Downside is having to occasionally update the firewall whenever there are IP address changes.

This is probably only feasible if you only have some specific Jellyfin clients in mind to accept connections from, not any random person from any random WAN IP address.

You didn’t mention your laptop specs but I’d say if your laptop has USB 3.0+ ports then you should be okay with plugging in a multi-drive USB DAS (like the ones with 2-5 drive bays) or even a single drive USB enclosure if that’s your preference. I have a few that I use on and off without issue.

Slower USB speeds are also functional but the performance hit will be noticeable.