I meant for discord, if they can optimize it more with a toggle for ‘game mode’ why not just make it the default so the experience is better for everyone all the time.

People abusing cloudflare workers.

I think it’s worth it, but you could move to one of the VPS deals on racknerd (or another lowendbox.com deal), for like $10-20 a year and save a bunch.

Why not just reduce resources all the time? Why does it need to be a bloated mess only when I’m not gaming if they can just turn a switch on to make it less bloated?

Most application data is stored in %AppData% on windows, stuff like preferences, accounts, etc…

It’s also entirely possible they just didn’t delete the old app data folder before a re-install, as those are normally left behind when uninstalling software, and the new install just picked up the account from there.

But in this case they are buying new Pis and modifying them, so their costs have to be higher than the official ones. It’s just weird to me that there is any market for that at all.

In concept nothing. But do you also recognize a legitimate business model of selling multiple products at different price points, spaced out more than the different cost of production?

Yes of course, but if the spacing is too much then stuff like this starts to happen.

is it your argument that they should be able to purchase the $20 product, add $10 of parts, and either use it or sell it as the $200 product?

Yes, once I buy something it’s mine to do with as I want. Obviously warranty may be void in some cases, but otherwise I own it.

If the market exists that is willing to buy it as a $200 product then Raspberry Pi should sell them for that price, their costs would be much lower than someone who buys a Pi at retail, buys new RAM chips, spends the time to desolder and solder on the new RAM chips, market their ‘product’, and deal with shipping it. If the knockoff is $200 and the same-spec legitimate Pi with warranty is $200, the knockoff won’t be around for long.

There’s a lot of good options, but for media you probably just want an x86 mini PC since they are way cheaper. Intel N100 based, or similar.

What’s the problem with a company doing what they want with hardware they purchased and own?

Nahh, their reasoning is BS IMO. It’s not an iPhone or something it’s a hobby product for tinkering with.

IMO they should have a set, compliant default for the radio and not allow users to change it.

I found it really difficult to use/understand and the mobile app is so slow.

Most people using Brave have no idea of those facts I’d bet.

I guess? They advertise it as blocking bots and bad actors and such but it doesn’t really do that.

IMO on-demand isn’t going to protect you much. Malware these days typically runs and does what it needs to do so quickly that only a system with solid real-time protection is going to have any chance at stopping things.

They do talk a lot about security and their WAF on their home page, it might be secondary but they mention it a lot.

I don’t believe there are any logs being transferred, just the abusive IPs are shared with the central DB.

So if an IP starts hitting a ton of rules (like .env access, repeated 403s, 404s, 429s, etc… Or specific AppSec rules) then that IP is blocked and sent to their central DB where it’s pushed out to everyone running crowdsec.

On my setup crowdsec has been more effective than cloudflare at stopping scanners and bots from overloading things, cloudflare just lets basically everything through so I stopped using it.

That said I’m curious if you remember the source of the real world tests, because I’d love to see what’s actually better.

Not really, there are some AV scanners for Linux but they are more an on-demand thing to scan specific files when needed.

I’m not sure I follow why this would be a big concern. If your drive is encrypted the worst they can do is wipe your data, which would require restoring a backup image. A hassle but it won’t give them access to your data.

Pangolin would work, it’s still wireguard underneath but with a webUI to set up things and simplify it. It’s fairly easy to install on your server with their docker compose examples.