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blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101653
fastcompany.com/3056721/most-innovative-companies/a-week-behind-the-great-firewall-of-china
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piggybacking off of you

Anyone know a good VPN that will actually work in China?

I miss shitty apps guy.

>try to upgrade Gentoo all day
>still havent

Setup an SSH tunnel to some VPS and route all your traffic through it. Chinks are fucking cucked by their gov. feel bad for you for that. Other than that you're the scum of the earth and deserve all the shit you get though

Thanks. I'm moving there in a little over a week.

What is a VPS and how do I do what you suggested?

Im not actually Chinese. Im here on business

I work with a crowdfunded 3d printer company, we are having supplier issues with some of our factories. I am supporting my other team members in person to get stuff cleaned up

Depends on how you define work.

Protecting your privacy and going through the Great Chinese Firewall? No

why?

It's China. I don't mind foregoing privacy. I just want to be able to access Youtube and porn sites.

Package conflicts and blocked packages. Every time I fix one, another problem happens.

That should be possible. Ask the Chinks how they do it.

Aren't blocks considered bugs in gentoo? Maybe that's just funtoo.

The average Chinese person doesn't really need to bypass the firewall. It's the foreigners who live there that have the greatest incentive to do so. Most of them just buy shitty VPN services that only work half the time. I'm looking for a more Sup Forums solution that will work better.

what does robin williams have to do with linux?

I'd suspect there are Chinese who also want to watch Porn and stuff

See superuser.com/questions/62303/how-can-i-tunnel-all-of-my-network-traffic-through-ssh on how to do this on linux/osx. On windows you can probably only use tunneling by letting putty setup a SOCKS5 tunnel, which should work fine with most services like email and browsing.

Also, this is an interesting article: blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/

Note that they monitor all traffix so they will immediately know if you connect to a known VPN. SSH traffic is a whole different story, they won't be able to distinguish. Anyway, they won't give a rats ass if foreigners or upper class people peek out of the firewall, it's the plebs they want to keep down.

More interesting stuff:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101653
fastcompany.com/3056721/most-innovative-companies/a-week-behind-the-great-firewall-of-china

so fucking based

thank you based friendly dude

They were both fun, but are dead now.

What should I do with this?

Must be Linux related

It has raspbian preinstalled but I don't know if that's any good

>Why doesn't Linus get sued for violating the GPL?
Because he doesn't implement the modules, other kernel developer do it for him. It's also actually tricky: The modules are dynamically linked, which means, inside the GPL zone is a link that points to the binary module outside the GPL zone. If this violates the GPL is discussed for years.

Install Gentoo

What is a cool app menu icon to use in KDE?

Fedora 24 user here, trying to set up my PIA VPN, moved the .crt file into /etc/openvpn and proceeded to set up as usual but SELinux prevents it from connecting. Is this a known issue or am I being an ignorant fool and making a mistake?

Now that I'm a Linux nigga, what music player should I get?
What's a good one? Is MusicBee any good?

>app
>icon
normalfags...

Web server, robot that you can speak to, magic mirror, torrent box/seed box, home automation, etc. Google around and you'll find something to do with it. Raspbian is probably the best distro for the raspberry pi since you will be using SSH to do anything with the device most of the time.

Since you're new to GNU/Linux, the first thing you need to learn is to make your own choices. I know it's a new feeling, but try it, you'll love it.

The one I'm using.

Musicbee is windows only. I find mpd + ncmpcpp a lot of fun to use and its so simple. But thats if you like playing music from the terminal.

That's not what I was asking. Not all music players are created equal.
Maybe you guys know of some really good ones that I wouldn't otherwise know about.
Why you gotta bring me down, mang?

mpv

So I've been trying to fix this issue on the in Xubuntu where the filenames seem to overlap.
I've tried restarting X and all that, but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?

Using it on Virtualbox.

What are the Pros and Cons of Debian and Ubuntu?

cli: mpv
tui: mpd+ncmpcpp
gui: deadbeef

Learn to make your own decisions already.

not friendly

condescending dingleberry

not even a proper response

classic completely sidesteps legit question with vague, useless and insulting answer

On this friendly thread

shame on you

Lollypop

that sounds gay tb h

Convince me to use Fedora for my new build

I was just making a suggestion man. It's whatever.

no

I like Cmus.
Uses a TUI.

What am I looking at here?

Install arch

:(

MOC is also nice (works without lib). Used it back when I was too retarded to ncmpcpp.

I don't and I hope he rots in reddit.

This is why nobody likes Arch users.

I like cmus because it is easy to make colourthemes for it.

Why is shitty apps guy a meme?
I want to be a meme too. ;_;

Emoticons are not allowed on imageboards.
We use images for that.

Lol I don't give a shit. Why the fuck would someone ask to be persuaded to use a specific distrio? If you don't already know the one you want to use them just try it out yourself.

I just installed it to try it out. I'm not really impressed with Gnome and right out of the box it's using 1GB of memory.

You want to be a retard that is universally hated?

Shitty apps guy detected.

Fuck off.

>halp, loonix ate my RAM
Please don't be retarded.

>I'm not really impressed with Gnome

Then install something else?

Arch + XFCE took up half that.

I plan on running multiple VM instances in the future. I don't want want to waste resources on useless shit.

I plan to! I'm really partial to XFCE right now. Xubunto or Manjaro?

>it's using all this ram!!!

ram is meant to be used to fucking retards

What's the point of having a separate private seedbox?

...

Why would you switch to an entirely different distro just to change DE?

...

t. hynix

>arch

What the fuck is this picture in the OP

Because certain distributions are more partial to particular DEs.

More support

If I want a good KDE experience I would use Kubuntu or openSUSE.

>using Arch
>not using Void or Exherbo

shake my head to be honest

>Kubuntu
No, if you want good KDE support you don't touch any *buntu

>ubuntu in charge of shadows
kek

1. Saves time.
Downloading and intalling an entire distro from scratch is actually faster than having to pick and download 1GB+ of individual packages through the package manager from slow servers.

2. Less bloat.

3. Safer. Convenient. Foolproof. No fuckups.

1. You're retarded

2. You can uninstall the old one

3. No, No, No and No.

You are fucking dumb

>Void
Of packages*

Hello

I use Fedora. What convincing do you want? Do you have questions or concerns about Fedora? What ails you?

Fedora is trash

...

it's red hat beta.

getting better and better every release.

He said convince me to use it, not the other way around

Fuck off shitty apps guy

Redpill me on the state of packages in Void, or is this a just meme?

How much time does the average linux user spend on simply keeping the OS running and searching for fixes when it wont boot after some update?

Serious question.

lel he's still around shilling his shitty apps infographic

next to zero mostly.

Using debian sid for over a year now, never happened. I automated updates.

>it wont boot after some update?
Never happened to me.

Use the shit in a VM and you'll see what a massive fucking trash it really is.

I'd rather use Fedora and I hate fedora if that gives you an idea

Why do you use Fedora? What made you choose it over other distro?

>zsh
>infinality

I just wanted to be a special snowflake. There's no real reason.

can be a walk in the park once you've lived the life and have some experience.

would be that for new people too, but they always find a way to fuck their system up and then they can't fix it afterwards.

honestly have had that problem, but it was due to drivers so just rolling them back fixed the won't boot problems.

He's called shitty apps guy for a reason.

App is literally short for application. It's just convenient to say app like it's convenient to use contractions or & or any other shortenings of words/terms.

>App is literally short for application

Why is Python better on Linux than Windows?

>not zsh
>not infinality

What packages was it missing?

steve, how about program? that's what programmers do: they write programs

Is it possible to get your own software into a Linux distribution repository?

I'd just like to interject for a moment.