I recently switched to whole-home VPN by routing everything except a few external services through a wireguard connection on pfSense.
Have to say I'm pretty happy with it compared to running a random VPN client on my computer. Funnily enough, the only thing I've been unable to access while behind VPN was downloading a windows ISO direct from microsoft to reset a laptop.
I tried this, but the CAPTCHAs make browsing nearly impossible and (I think) are what breaks many of the devices on my network, and when it's on the whole home network from the router, it's a lot harder to turn it off when I just need to get something done. I'll probably end up spinning up an exit node on Linode or something, but I tried that on certain machines and it had some significant performance implications (though I'm not geographically near a datacenter so it probably wouldn't be the same problem for most people).
> I tried this, but the CAPTCHAs make browsing nearly impossible
Not even on a VPN and I get them all the time. Duckduckgo demanded one from me just this morning. To their credit, you don't even need JS enabled for what they're using.
I gave up on VPNing my whole network when it progressed past CAPTCHAs and into getting blocked outright. Hard CloudFlare errors with no challenge, or getting my connections null routed altogether. Life's too short for this shit I'm afraid.
I'm gonna do this with debian in 2025 when windows 10 runs out of security updates. Proton has been great on my steamdeck so I probably won't miss out on many games.
i was also tempted to just go the debian route - but the free Ubuntu Pro subscription for personal use with 12 years of bug/security updates (and ultimately, peace of mind) was what won me over - I hate reinstalling or upgrading my OS so over a decade of not changing anything is really appealing to me.
i've been playing my steam games with Proton so far and it's been solid
I haven't had Windows in the home for a good 10-ish years now. While that is good for my personal use. It is bad when others need help with their computers and my skill set of windows support has atrophied.
My experience of Windows is via the very locked down work place and it is not great.
had a few small bumps getting everything I need configured and running the way I need it, but now that I have everything the way I like it it's damn near perfect
> However, it's important to note that Redmond includes all security fixes in a single update. Hence, removing cumulative updates removes all fixes for patched security vulnerabilities in addition to resolving VPN issues.
Maybe they should stop bundling said fixes all in one update. This was not practiced so extensively in older vers of windows, and i always get the impression this system was switched to, as part of win10's push to exert more control over updates on end user computers.
> This was not practiced so extensively in older vers of windows
Yes, and the result was a billions of billions of combinations of those updates.
While the current system is far from being ideal, it's way easier to test with a reduced set of permutations.
And before you object, think of it this way - if the current shitshow is with a reduced set, imagine what it would be with a non reduced one. It wouldn't be a shitshow x 2 or shitshow^2, it would be around shitshow^99999.
> Yes, and the result was a billions of billions of combinations of those updates.
I was recently talking to a colleague about this, and it was remarkable to me how "quickly" they had forgotten the hell of having Windows Update filled with 1 billion 10kb updates.
Honestly, I wonder how many businesses this actually impacts because as far as I know, most people rather just implement firewall/security appliance based firewalls which are all OpenVPN based or something propertiary like Cisco secure client.
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Have to say I'm pretty happy with it compared to running a random VPN client on my computer. Funnily enough, the only thing I've been unable to access while behind VPN was downloading a windows ISO direct from microsoft to reset a laptop.
Not even on a VPN and I get them all the time. Duckduckgo demanded one from me just this morning. To their credit, you don't even need JS enabled for what they're using.
zero regrets, tired of Microsoft's terrible quality, terrible security, terrible ads - good riddance
i've been playing my steam games with Proton so far and it's been solid
My experience of Windows is via the very locked down work place and it is not great.
i've started telling them to just buy a macbook
tried Mint and Manjaro before that. if i had to use a ubuntu derivative, i'd probably try Pop!_OS.
Maybe they should stop bundling said fixes all in one update. This was not practiced so extensively in older vers of windows, and i always get the impression this system was switched to, as part of win10's push to exert more control over updates on end user computers.
Yes, and the result was a billions of billions of combinations of those updates.
While the current system is far from being ideal, it's way easier to test with a reduced set of permutations.
And before you object, think of it this way - if the current shitshow is with a reduced set, imagine what it would be with a non reduced one. It wouldn't be a shitshow x 2 or shitshow^2, it would be around shitshow^99999.
I was recently talking to a colleague about this, and it was remarkable to me how "quickly" they had forgotten the hell of having Windows Update filled with 1 billion 10kb updates.
Do they still have a Windows QA department?
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