For the most part, I’m not fond of its GUI, the rest is because I’ve been using qBit for, I don’t know, maybe ten or twelve years now

why would you be happy to do that… i’m just a smol guy

Yeah, I read about the new libtorrent version having slower uploads, but I was already on 5.3.0 BEFORE the issue, so that’s not it

at Brickfrog’s suggestion I crossposted this on the piracy community, and someone did incur in the same issue. Apparently it’s a ProtonVPN DDOS protection, and the fix is lowering the number of max connections, so you’re kind of right, though it’s server-side. I’m now on 20 max global connections and it seems to chug along, for the time being. Now, as to why Transmission worked with 200 max connections, while qBit gets a connection timeout with 150 max, I don’t really know. Though I tried Transmission “as is” without even configuring ports, so that probably lowers the actual number of connections it can establish? I did see lower upload speeds in it, compared to my actual bandwidth and to what I used to see in qBit

That’s not it, they allow P2P and even have a guide on how to bind your P2P client to the VPN interface. Thanks though!

So, journalctl for the VPN shows nothing for Nov 01 around that time (only what I suppose is normal networking, “sending request - receiving response”). I remember that the qBit client froze at some point and I had to xkill it, though I’m not sure it was so long ago, I think it was less than a week ago. Anyway this is the journalctl for that day, around that time: https://pastebin.com/Y9eXqbgL

in a few minutes I’ll add the VPN log matching the Nov 10 qBit SIGTERM edit: here it is: https://pastebin.com/Vj9e0a2C

What I understand from these logs, and also because I noticed it this time, is that once the connection to the VPN server drops, I can NOT reconnect to the same server, not manually nor waiting for the client to do it automatically. I can only connect again to ProtonVPN if I change country

Nov 10 was three days ago and that’s more or less when this issue started happening. I’ll check the logs again and see if I remember something. I usually don’t close qBit as soon as I boot the system, routine is boot, launch PVPN, connect, launch qBit and I don’t close it ever.

The Proton log is truncated because it was tens of thousands of lines lol so I had the journalctl print only the last few lines, but, yeah, I can fetch its logs for Nov 10 and Nov 01, I’ll add them asap.

I was just thinking that I did not try to reinstall qBit and maybe I should do that! Thanks again

Yes, virtually all servers allow P2P (there are two or three locations that don’t), and I get the same issue regardless of which one I’m connected to.

Encryption is set to “allow” in qBit and “prefer” in Transmission.

Thanks!

I did try lowering connections (started from 500/200/something/something, went down to 150/20/10/4, this is global max connections/max connections per torrent/max upload slots/max up slots per torrent) but it still kills the VPN.

Transmission was left untouched and it currently has 200 peers overall and 50 peers per torrent.

I disabled DHT, testing it!

Thanks for the help, I’ll also try crossposting there, you never know!

edit: VPN is still killed with no DHT and/or capped down/up

Done! Thanks again for the commands

yes, qBit was always bound to the VPN interface, I’ll add it to the OP.

thanks for the commands, I’ll see what they return and add everything to the OP as soon as possible

do you even have the right of not being recorded while outdoors? more precisely, one thing is holding a camera towards one person and one person only, following their every move, another is shooting a video while walking down the street, otherwise no one could ever even take a photo of a square as long as there’s someone, for example

nice. I’m a bit further into the game so I can’t say anything, I wouldn’t want to spoil you even the tiniest thing. happy gaming!

hey hey (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

how are you liking it so far? personally, I’m loving the setting and, while the main plotline is nothing new, the lore and amount of additional details in the Codex is really nice

I’m not too sure, maybe? If the tracking pixel is on a domain known to serve ads or trackers, it might, but if it’s on a legitimate domain (e.g. your ISP’s) I don’t think it can, since you’d have to have added the ISP’s domain to the Pi-hole blacklist

Email aliasing services, which are genuinely good services to use, strip those pixels from inbound emails. At least Firefox Relay, Addy and SimpleLogin do

probably being able to go from star system to star system without having to open and use the stellar map and click on the star you want to warp to

edit: yeah

The studio has also added what it calls “seamless warping”, meaning you can just lock onto the brightest star in the sky and travel straight there without visiting the galactic map.

“came out of beta”, though. in the first few days, or weeks, after the official release, there was extensive discussion about the issues and shortcomings of Cosmic, if I recall correctly

edit: whoops, I was too slow

Read somewhere that sometimes it’s best to ask for obfuscation of personal info rather than straight up removal, as a middle ground you can both agree on, e.g. truncating your name and surname in your reviews.

If you’re not in a country with strong personal information rights, try that next; if you are, you may need to contact your local data protection authority to file a complaint

If you play through Steam, since using Proton is enabled by default, you just need to install a game.

Sometimes you have to go into the game’s Steam settings and manually pick a different Proton version if the game is old (usually an older version) or if the game is very new (Proton Experimental or gloriouseggroll’s fork of Proton, ProtonGE, this one being a manual install from gloriouseggroll’s GitHub), and you can find user reports on ProtonDB on what version other users have been using;

if you use Steam and GoG or other sources with no launcher, the main third party game launchers (Lutris, Heroic) use UMU by default, which means they leverage Steam’s Proton to install and play games, basically doing what Steam does, just outside of the Steam app, therefore the experience there is the same as Steam.

This means that you can use most “normal” distros regardless of what they’re marketed for. I’ve played games the same way on PoP! OS and EndeavourOS, simply plug and play (barring some edge cases).

Native, Flatpak or other doesn’t really matter for the most part, though native is usually the most straightforward and hassle-free.

tldr: install any standard distro you like and Steam + alternate launcher and you’ll find out that the gaming experience is almost completely plug-and-play