I still get “This site can’t be reached” (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED). Not sure why, but maybe their domain is included in some blocklist I use in Adguard Home on my router? I haven’t checked that.

The link is currently dead, but it seems to be the official one.

I couldn’t access their crowdfunding page either, so maybe they’re dead and gone?

When searching for it, multiple sources mention there’s a risk of it being a scam, but it’s hard to tell:

Update from 27 January 2025: Beware of possible fraud As user ElCanch0 writes in the comments of this article, there is a possibility that the Nexx or the upcoming crowdfunding campaign is a scam.

On news.ycombinator.com, several critical voices point out inconsistencies. Raddish2 writes in the thread that the Liberux employees listed may not exist (he was unable to find any information online) and that the company address may be an ordinary residential building. The address given is not listed in the public cadastre, although Spain normally lists not only buildings but also their floor plans. However, user InceptTM points out that the people can at least be found on LinkedIn. Another user says that he asked around and found out that some people from the company were involved in the bank fraud of Rodrigo Rato, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2017.

Source (Digitec.ch)

Another source (Liliputing.com) mentioning the possibility of it being a scam.

It’s also possible they just didn’t reach their crowdfunding goals, and had to end the project.

If anyone here knows more about this, I’m interested!

there aint no thing like a backdoor “only for the good guys”

And why are we even thinking of the oppressors as “the good guys” at this point? Draconian acts like these make them very, very bad actors. I’ll even call them evil. Yeah, I’ve lost all faith in our digital future…

Visually, it reminds me of how you put your tongue out between the teeth to make the sound ;þ

“Video Killed The Radio Star”, even, was distributed in Canada and Brazil by WEA [Warner, Elektra, Atlantic], according to Discogs. Interesting!

EDIT: But wait for their next big release with a more aggressive tone: “Sling TV Pissed Off Conglomerates”…

Does Ableton work well on Linux in your experience? What’s the best recipe? I haven’t tried it yet, but awesome if it works!

I’ve heard they’re called smyths on reddit and there’s a complete collection in some thread over there.

r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may_2018_update

Also, repetitions are removed and some of the fluff (though sometimes a bit too much of the fluff has been removed according to some opinions I read once upon a time on reddit). To make up for it, replace the missing fluff with the stupidly long fluffy tail of content which this comment is now somehow turning into. Fluffing the fluff. And also, repetitions(!) are removed but also the fluff.

For public transit in many different countries, I used to rely on Transportr but since it’s not being properly maintained and some countries stopped working, I’ve been relying on Öffi (Directions, Stations, Plans) instead. It presents the connections in a kind of time-based chart instead of a list, but I actually find it quite good after getting used to it.

Regarding pinning apps, you can add apps to Favorites by holding the app icon and tapping the ★ icon. On the homescreen, the pinned favorites can be shown and either sorted automatically by usage, or sorted manually to lock them in place on the screen. You can also do a mix of auto/manually sorted, so that the apps at the top are static while those below are dynamically changing.

Another option is adding one or multiple tags to each app (hold the icon, tap the three dots, then Customize). After setting some tags, you can then tap the pen icon in the bottom right corner of the Favorites view, tap the first + to add a new tag to favorites. You can then switch between “folders”/“collections” of the pinned tags inside the favorites view.

Re-reading my previous comment, I think I gave you some incorrect information. Let me try again.

If you want to use a VPN and stay/become connectable to peers in P2P apps such as torrent clients, you need one of the few VPNs that support port forwarding. So far, so good.

However, I think I was wrong about the configuration. It’s correct that you need to define a port number in your torrent client’s settings, but when using a VPN, your router’s port forwarding configuration is irrelevant, opposing to what I previously said. Instead, somewhere in your VPN’s settings or when logged in on the VPN provider’s website, you should set the same port number as in your torrent client. If the provider already assigned some port number to you, copy that to your torrent client config instead. Also look into how to bind your torrent client to your VPN so no traffic escapes if the VPN disconnects.

The router admin dashboard is only relevant for traffic that doesn’t go through the VPN, so probably irrelevant for your torrenting, and you can only forward ports if you have your own public IP, rather than a shared one (CGNAT). I don’t know which you have or if you’ll ever need one. Ask your ISP if you need a public IP for something on your network that doesn’t go through the VPN, e.g. some game server. While some ISPs give every customer a public IP, others sell it as an add-on for a small monthly fee if the technology (e.g. fiber) allows it, but only some technologies do. But as I said, the router port config doesn’t matter when torrenting through the VPN.

Regarding SOCKS5, I found this description of it by in this blog post by ExpressVPN:

A SOCKS proxy acts as an intermediary between your device and the internet. Instead of your network packets being sent directly to their destination, they are first routed through the proxy server. The proxy then forwards those requests on your behalf, replacing your IP address with its own.

So no, it’s not. From some quick searches, it seems possible use a SOCKS proxy from your VPN provider for your torrent client in order to hide your real IP from other peers, but since I can’t find any proof of port forwarding being possible through such a proxy, this probably wont make you connectable…

I’m not that person, but I’m satisfied with my GL.Inet Flint 2. It runs OpenWRT, and if you keep their version of the firmware, setting up a wireguard VPN is made very simple.

I clicked a few buttons, scrolled for a while, and then found the specs on this page, including this chart:

The specs seem generally fine, I think. I notice a built-in minijack, which I like. Though, I also notice only 10W charging which isn’t a lot – about half the charging power of my Pixel 7 Pro – but the battery will probably last for more cycles then. What do you notice? Any numbers that seem too low/high/outdated to you?

Are we talking about Wordfeud or is there another online Scrabble game?

This looks cool, and I like your thoughts on it! Are you planning on an Android release too, somewhere down the road?

I’m not the one you’re asking, but it seems to be this repo on Github and I read that it works because Jellyfin does/can(?) expose a Subsonic API.

Thank you. I do have Arcticons Dark installed from F-Droid (it’s just called Arcticons there, it seems, while the other editions have their full names), and it’s the latest F-Droid release of it from 3 weeks ago. I already assumed it would work like you described, but only the “Breezy Weather” and “Pixel” icon packs are showing up there.

I’m unsure what could cause this, but some possibilities I can think of are:

🤏 Differences between F-Droid, Github, Accrescent and Google Play releases?

✋GrapheneOS system security restrictions limiting the scopes of the apps?

If you (or anyone else reading this) happen to know anything that could lead to a solution, I’m all ears!

Then what you need is a VPN that supports port forwarding. There are very few, but I bet you can find a thread somewhere on Lemmy discussing the options you have. Then, if I’m not mistaken, you still need to know/set the port number in your torrent client and config the router correctly, probably through its admin site which you’ll find on the router’s IP in the browser. If you don’t know the login (and admin/admin doesn’t work) you can find the default credentials by searching the web for your router model number + admin login. When logged in, you can set new admin login credentials if you don’t want other users of your local network to be able to access or change the config settings.

Cool!

How/where did you get the Arcticons pack for Breezy Weather? I have their app icons installed and use them for my apps, but I’d like to use their weather icons too if that’s an option.

Check the open port number of your torrent client – which should also be set in your router’s port forwarding or firewall config (alternatively enable UPnP in the router config to let it handle such things for you).

You can use a utility like CanYouSeeMe.org to check if it’s correctly configured.

EDIT If you can’t make it work, you might be behind double NAT, sharing varying IPs with multiple other of the ISP’s customers at once. In that case, you’ll need to find one of the few trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding to get connectable, as it’s called, and be able to connect to all peers no matter if they’re connectable or not. Alternatively, rent a connectable seedbox in the cloud.