Iirc, I set it up with this article from Proton: https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations

Also maybe a niche case but since the source of your irritation is connection, I think it’s worth mentioning:

If you use a certain VPN whose widget is for Debian/Ubuntu only in this family of distros coughcoughprotoncoughcough, please take the time to learn how to use the WireGuard integration from the VPN instead. The widget version if installed on Mint is way too prone to breaking, being a matter of when, and not if it will break. And WireGuard instead I have yet to see breaking on its own.

I’d recommend Linux Mint Xfce. It’s the closest to an “it just works” situation while being open to tinker and quick to respond, this last part as the micro delays from Linux Mint Cinammon for most things being what pushed me away from Windows in the first place.

Both Mint versions are made by the same people and found in the same site.

Dunno over on Reddit - wasn’t all too interested in open source when I used it. But people here seem overall friendly towards open source. So if I might suggest, also since Reddit doesn’t explain what the violation was so presumption of innocence for you kicks in, maybe remake the subreddit as a community here? Also decentralized governance should help mitigate powertripping management as Reddit is showing in recent years. At worst, you’d have to make the community again on another instance, but I haven’t seen the lemmy.world administration pick a bone with communities in the years I have been around, so should be safe, me thinks.

Maybe through the fediverse with @birb@rss-parrot.net? It’d be a plain RSS reader but publishing what it finds as posts.

Not ideal if the intention is to keep using the Reddit app, but if the platform you use has an app and supports the bot’s posts (since they’re microblogs), maybe it could be an alternative?

Doesn’t seem to happen going by the graphs included, but one thing I look in benchmarks is not how fast or not a program was, but how frequent spikes and hiccups in speed are. Having played games at 11 FPS but that were consistent at that and seemingly weren’t lagging (variable max fps?), big numbers don’t tell much imo.

Also, statistically, one single benchmark, and from an unamed game at that, doesn’t tell much either. If I might suggest, maybe do like the microblogging folks and start a responses/quoting thread of more tests?

In lack of context, I’ll guess: if you are logged off when you try to do it, browse old.reddit.com instead, as that one allows browsing whatever accoutless.

Also, unsure what Reddit allows or doesn’t when logged in, butif you are, try to disable any NSFW filters or keyword filters your account may have.

Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power.

And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is “capitalism”, with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.

If a tool can display embedded videos, or download them, there are some that come to mind.

A “FeedHub” extension I found on the Chrome store while testing some things some months back could play embedded videos.

Newsboat, though not having an internal player, can download the videos iirc, which is halfway there (requires some setting up beforehand).

Grayjay, an aggregator for Youtube, Rumble, Soundcloud, etc., can fetch through RSS Youtube videos specifically as an option to avoid timeouts (sadly no Odysee, NicoNico or Peertube’s RSS integration).

Also the fediverse softwares I tested most can play embedded videos and there are RSS-tracking bots around which you can use to turn your feed also on a RSS reader.

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Maybe your service has some sort of IP leak? Heard it could be a thing but I don’t know how to troubleshoot - still, maybe worth the mention. Also Reddit’s IP bans are so easy to spread it feels they’re doing a “plandemic”, like they’re intentionally trying to kill the site. They’re also trigger-happy for banning by a lot of other reasons, so impressed you didn’t get the hammer before.

But alas, here in the fediverse, even if some administration or moderation pulls a similar BS, at least you can easily find a new home. But usually admins and mods are chill from what I observe.

And if you must still follow Reddit posts, though now anonymously, maybe check @birb@rss-parrot.net, since subreddits and users have RSS natively through old.reddit.com. Microblogging (e.g. Mastodon) bot though.

Biggest loss if/when Old Reddit is removed would be RSS. Browsing the site otherwise is painful.

Truly feels like the management’s intent is to run the site to the ground, creating animosity any way they can.

Similar to Facebook’s old design, I would presume redirecting scripts should work as long as the interface is available. And with Facebook, once they started removing means to access the old design, new removals were ever quicker.

I don’t think this community is for travel questions. Maybe better to post/crosspost to !travel@lemmy.ml, !Travel@crazypeople.online, and/or !france@jlai.lu.

I call these the “2010’s platforms”:

Walled gardens where the walls are mainly the addiction and dependence they cause.

Though most are from before 2010, by the beginning of the decade, these started shifting to the bad design we have today.

And borrowing from an analysis I saw, iirc of power through economic mismamanegement, these platforms need to keep inflating their presence to keep being relevant. But the more they inflate, the more they need to keep inflating, else their castle of cards come crumbling.

But as cracks start to appear, which I’d interpret as them becoming so big their problems are too hard to ignore even for “normies”, or even the problems growing to that same result, people start jumping ship, and the platforms start panicking. But with these platforms having no concept of true relevance, then we get to the alienation as damage control.

IPs may be shared among users though. If another user tried the same but made a previous, blacklisted IP visible, he may have tarnished one of the VPN IPs too.

About what’s Reddit’s intention, I can only conjecture, but I get the impression they are intentionally self-sabotaging. And trying to think who or how someone would benefit from this, the only thing that comes to mind is that they’re destroying the legacy of the biggest public forum.

This, extrapolating, would potentially force people to go to platforms that require accounts, which sounds even more suspicious when considering the verification laws and policies that are increasingly being pushed since around October last year.

About VPN, Reddit apparently does IP bans and automatically considers a new account made in a same IP of a banned account as an evasion attempt, which given VPNs, spreads like a disease, like they’re setting up a digital pandemic - or should I say “a plandemic”.

Ani.Social being a Lemmy instance.

Also sadly that requires having an account. Also, PieFed iirc has curated feeds, something Lemmy copying wouldn’t be half bad, I think.

About defaulting to subscriptions, there actually is a way through the settings:

Alternatively, intentionally loosen the precautions, at least at first, seeing how the system ticks. Then, when things start getting unstable, make a new clean install of the system and do it all over again, but with the previous issues already in mind so you can avoid them.

Iirc there’s a saying that only those who fall know how to stand up. If you can afford the time investment, it’s a golden opportunity to learn.