'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

XYZpdq said:
so digging through some crap I found a Garvin or one of those other old dedicated GPS gizmos. Do any of those have some voodoo you can perform to make them play video games or something?
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Slap it repeatedly with a floppy disc containing Doom until it yields and runs Doom.
 
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So I'm a noob to using VPNs, and currently only use NordVPN on my phone, and had a few questions.

1. Will my IP address be encrypted when connected to non-public Wifi?

2. How often should I disconnect and reconnect to the VPN?

3. Should I change countries frequently?

4. If I accidentally post on KF without turning on the VPN, will my phone's IP address be immediately traceable, or will having connected to it many times before obscure it?
 
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So I'm a noob to using VPNs, and currently only use NordVPN on my phone, and had a few questions.

1. Will my IP address be encrypted when connected to non-public Wifi?

2. How often should I disconnect and reconnect to the VPN?

3. Should I change countries frequently?

4. If I accidentally post on KF without turning on the VPN, will my phone's IP address be immediately traceable, or will having connected to it many times before obscure it?
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  1. Any connections from your phone will hide your IP regardless of whether you're using public/private Wi-Fi or mobile data. None of the other devices on the network will be protected unless you set NordVPN up on them too.
  2. If it starts running slow reconnecting will probably put you on a server with less load and might be quicker.
  3. There's really no need to, unless you're trying to watch content on something like iPlayer from outside the UK or country-exclusive Netflix shows.
  4. IP logs are only kept for a short time (I think it's a day) and only Null, Ride and wagglyplacebo can see them. They'll be able to tell it's not a VPN connection but only if they decide to check for some reason.
 
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Meat Target said:
So I'm a noob to using VPNs, and currently only use NordVPN on my phone, and had a few questions.

1. Will my IP address be encrypted when connected to non-public Wifi?

2. How often should I disconnect and reconnect to the VPN?

3. Should I change countries frequently?

4. If I accidentally post on KF without turning on the VPN, will my phone's IP address be immediately traceable, or will having connected to it many times before obscure it?
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4. With KF and a phone, who cares, especially if connecting from a public place where their IP is used. If using a cellphone dataplan, that IP is going to change and what will it tell anyone? I used IPLocation.com on my phone and I'm currently located at a base station in an industrial area, not even remotely close to where I am.
Residential is different, the IP can be used for more accurate geolocation. But if it's just KF: why would mods and admins care about where not-exactly you might be?

If you are worried about the glowies then you've got bigger problems. Using a VPN to hide your identity then using your Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Google etc account won't fool them. Use a VPN and never do anything you would do on the internet to throw them off, whatever that means, it sounds boring.
 
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Meat Target said:
2. How often should I disconnect and reconnect to the VPN?

3. Should I change countries frequently?

4. If I accidentally post on KF without turning on the VPN, will my phone's IP address be immediately traceable, or will having connected to it many times before obscure it?
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2. The idea behind the suggestion to change servers, which you see reasonably frequently, is that if you always connect to say, server 31 in Finland, that's a pattern that could be exploited to track your activity. For example if you have five socks on KiwiFarms, and you always connect from the same VPN server, that makes it almost as obvious to the sysops that all of them are you as you always connecting from your home connection would be. And at a higher level, if you're doing illegal activity and that's your only protection, in theory the host country of the server could monitor it and do traffic analysis.

So better to 'favourite' a safe country or three, and always connect to a random server from one of those.

3. I wouldn't worry about that so much. But it makes sense to avoid servers in your own country and ideally stick to those in relatively free countries- Serbia, China (Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region), Romania, etc.

4. @Smaug's Smokey Hole is entirely right about how you would want to separate anything you did (whether on KF or elsewhere) that could count as a crime in the US from your 'normal' traffic, because otherwise the pigs could correlate things like IPs and times for Google account logins to legally obtained information about where your traffic to the website was coming from.

If you just want to ensure that all your traffic goes through a VPN, recent Android versions have an 'Always on VPN' option. Alternatively you could use the mobile Tor Browser for anything you consider sensitive. Or a VPN and the Tor Browser.
 
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3119967d0c said:
2. The idea behind the suggestion to change servers, which you see reasonably frequently, is that if you always connect to say, server 31 in Finland, that's a pattern that could be exploited to track your activity. For example if you have five socks on KiwiFarms, and you always connect from the same VPN server, that makes it almost as obvious to the sysops that all of them are you as you always connecting from your home connection would be. And at a higher level, if you're doing illegal activity and that's your only protection, in theory the host country of the server could monitor it and do traffic analysis.

So better to 'favourite' a safe country or three, and always connect to a random server from one of those.

3. I wouldn't worry about that so much. But it makes sense to avoid servers in your own country and ideally stick to those in relatively free countries- Serbia, China (Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region), Romania, etc.

4. @Smaug's Smokey Hole is entirely right about how you would want to separate anything you did (whether on KF or elsewhere) that could count as a crime in the US from your 'normal' traffic, because otherwise the pigs could correlate things like IPs and times for Google account logins to legally obtained information about where your traffic to the website was coming from.

If you just want to ensure that all your traffic goes through a VPN, recent Android versions have an 'Always on VPN' option. Alternatively you could use the mobile Tor Browser for anything you consider sensitive. Or a VPN and the Tor Browser.
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DD-WRT also has openVPN capability, which every worthwhile VPN supports; you can just lock your whole home internet behind a VPN if you're that worried about anonymity.
 
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I have a question, why the fuck does bass pro shop require motion sensors
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I have a question, why the fuck does bass pro shop require motion sensors
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So they can pick the right fishing reel for you based on hand motion?

Seriously though, probably because one of the advertising fingerprinting libraries they run wants to make use of that data. Not because they can uniquely identify you walking around holding your phone up to your face, but you should stop doing that, but because they can narrow down your device fingerprint by looking at the range of values that they get back from the orientation and acceleration sensors.
 
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I just wanted to post an update after a week, I didn't forget the advice here:

After switching in the power options and turning the screen sleep to never (but still having the computer sleep at 2 hours), and switching out the keyboard and mouse to a logitech combo, I have not had the screen issues pop up *knock on wood*
 
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3119967d0c said:
2. The idea behind the suggestion to change servers, which you see reasonably frequently, is that if you always connect to say, server 31 in Finland, that's a pattern that could be exploited to track your activity. For example if you have five socks on KiwiFarms, and you always connect from the same VPN server, that makes it almost as obvious to the sysops that all of them are you as you always connecting from your home connection would be. And at a higher level, if you're doing illegal activity and that's your only protection, in theory the host country of the server could monitor it and do traffic analysis.

So better to 'favourite' a safe country or three, and always connect to a random server from one of those.

3. I wouldn't worry about that so much. But it makes sense to avoid servers in your own country and ideally stick to those in relatively free countries- Serbia, China (Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region), Romania, etc.

4. @Smaug's Smokey Hole is entirely right about how you would want to separate anything you did (whether on KF or elsewhere) that could count as a crime in the US from your 'normal' traffic, because otherwise the pigs could correlate things like IPs and times for Google account logins to legally obtained information about where your traffic to the website was coming from.

If you just want to ensure that all your traffic goes through a VPN, recent Android versions have an 'Always on VPN' option. Alternatively you could use the mobile Tor Browser for anything you consider sensitive. Or a VPN and the Tor Browser.
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I have tried Tor, but it was too slow for my liking.
 
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Tor is for when a government agent is going to kick down your door for what you're doing. You don't need it to post on Kiwifarms in most of the western world(England excluded because lol England), unless you're copying and pasting mass shooter manifestos or posting pictures of murdered people or some shit.
 
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