I remember a year or so ago when I switched from Pulseaudio to Pipewire, best decision I’ve ever made in my entire life!

Sand-boxing only works fully if you have the Flatpak; Thanks for mentioning this as I forgot to specify!

No problem!

The pursuit of knowledge is endless; It’s good to ask questions, but always do your own research too, as myself or anyone else could not know what they’re talking about.

I hope you have a great day as well!

You can use virustotal for any game/file under 650MBs; This meme was created as a joke, good security practices should always be followed.

No anti virus will be 100% accurate, viruses get missed all the time, while legitimate software can acquire false flags.

I would never recommend just running a random .exe you find on the internet with wine as any non-root protected files could potentially be damaged; With Bottles (the application) all files outside of the created bottle are not visible to programs ran/installed inside the bottle.

If you really want to try something, throwing caution to the wind, running it in a wine BOTTLE that’s created just for that program, has a low chance of damaging your computer. (This does not mean “safe”)

https://docs.usebottles.com/flatpak/expose-directories/use-system-home#sandboxed-userdir-homedir

Also besides them being extremely shady; I refuse to use any VPN that makes me create an account past a generic account number. If you don’t log my data, why do you need me to sign up?

Thanks for the information, I will definitely look into those! I used to use Mullvad for torrenting for a number of years, the Linux client worked very well, no leaks, and the Killswitch was effective through manual testing.

Oh yeah. I’ve used them for a couple years, I’ve just been out of the circle for 4-5 months. I also know things can change in the snap of a finger, so I figured I’d ask around. Good to see mullvad is still so highly recommended.

Thanks for the info!

Yeah, still I can only take the company’s word to any of these claims. After further research it looks like IVPN doesn’t have port forwarding anymore either; If I do go the VPN route, I may still test my seeding speed with Mullvad as I’ve used them for a number of years.

Sorry to spam the instance with a FAQ. I may of been misinformed, I was under the impression it was difficult to seed easily with Mullvad now. Also I was curious if anyone had recommendations with good Linux clients, not just the service itself; It seems IVPN or Mullvad will be the best all around option for me, if I do go the VPN route.

Thanks for the information; I already use proton mail plus to have all of my email domains under one, easy to sort inbox. However, I don’t wish to perform illicit activities on something with my legal name attached!

Is setup similar to a VPS where I can just connect from the command line and set everything up on the remote box?

Thanks for the suggestion! This may actually be the route I may go, as I can seed MUCH higher than a 1.0 without affecting my home connection speeds.

Holy shit, thank you for that information; I will definitely ensure I use a client with those vulnerabilities patched!

Deleted my lemmy world profile and signed up on here the same day they tried to pull that shit.