u/skeil90

Basic details:

UK Based

Family of 6

EE Broadband w/eero router

I'm looking to set up my household with a VPN and other privacy tools and I'm just looking for some advice, I have some basic understanding but I'm hoping to gain deeper knowledge.

At this stage I'm looking at Proton's family plan because proton seems to stand out as one of the better companies in regards to privacy focus and security, but I'm curious about other options. I want the VPN of course, I want the password manager and although I'm not terribly fussed about email the idea that I could create a family domain does seem cool, cloud storage is nice but I do intend on setting up a home network with some form of mass storage at some point in the near future.

So ideally I want to be able to have a VPN at the router level to avoid having to set up a VPN on each individual device, as far as I can tell my eero router is incapable of this. The question is can I do something to secure all my at home devices without installing a vpn on each? Assuming not what would be an affordable router that is capable?

I think that's all but if you have any other advice I'm all ears. Thank you for your time.

Basic details:

UK Based

Family of 6

EE Broadband w/eero router

I'm looking to set up my household with a VPN and other privacy tools and I'm just looking for some advice, I have some basic understanding but I'm hoping to gain deeper knowledge.

At this stage I'm looking at Proton's family plan because proton seems to stand out as one of the better companies in regards to privacy focus and security, but I'm curious about other options. I want the VPN of course, I want the password manager and although I'm not terribly fussed about email the idea that I could create a family domain does seem cool, cloud storage is nice but I do intend on setting up a home network with some form of mass storage at some point in the near future.

So ideally I want to be able to have a VPN at the router level to avoid having to set up a VPN on each individual device, as far as I can tell my eero router is incapable of this. The question is can I do something to secure all my at home devices without installing a vpn on each? Assuming not what would be an affordable router that is capable?

I think that's all but if you have any other advice I'm all ears. Thank you for your time.

Edit: I place this edit at the top so it's seen first. First of all I will concede that I am wrong, the companies are not necessarily Monopolies in a way that would be concerning in Ancapistan. I also understand that a monopoly is bad when it makes competition impossible (which ideally shouldn't happen in Ancap), or is built around necessities like housing, water, healthcare etc. All this to say that no matter the medium/market/physicality as long as it's free without restriction then monopolies will always be challenged and if you don't keep informed then it's on you.

I'm looking at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and even Steam/Valve (although I'd doubt Steam would survive Anarchy because no one would make games if they can't make money from them). These companies all hold monopolies despite there being reasonable competition, nothing stops me from making my own operating system or office suite software, we have Linux based OSs and Mac OS, as well as FOSS office Suites. Online store fronts aren't impossible, we have eBay, Alibaba, Etsy, etc. I could make my own Web engine, Geko (Firefox) exists. There are plenty of different digital game storefronts and Launchers.

However these companies haven't necessarily grown to be monopolies solely because of regulation, rather they have provided services that people want and thus captured markets completely despite competition both prior to and post their creation. You might argue that lucrative government contracts facilitate their rise but is that necessarily exclusive to the state model, couldn't a rich person in Ancap invest wild sums to do the same thing. If anything Linux and FOSS would slow down massively because people won't be able to afford to donate their time to voluntary development.

Then there's the bad practices, what's their incentive to be honest and open about their tracking, who's gonna tell Adobe that their subscription model is predatory because it makes it very difficult to back out and they should change. How can a free market stop these companies swallowing up their competition when they have no reason to be honest about anything they do?

I have reached a boiling point with trying to get Project Zomboid to work and failing miserably. Key info...

Fedora 44 (KDE)

Game purchased on GOG.

Tried Heroic & Lutris.

Tried windows ver, and Linux ver.

I have 2 drives, internal nvme and external SSD.

System installed on SSD, I want games on nvme.

Setup nvme to automount through system settings/Gui way,

may have made things difficult I dunno. I am in half a mind to restart from scratch, nuke the whole lot and start again. I can backup my red dead save on steam no real loss there just time wasted with setting up my DE and all that stuff again.

I have taken multiple avenues that just haven't seemed to achieve anything, and I've failed at keeping records of failures and I'm tired of doing redundant things at this point.

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Before I go fully nuclear is there a way I can ensure all traces of Zomboid, Lutris and Heroic (perhaps even wine) are fully eradicated so that I can just start from that checkpoint without starting the whole level again? I just want to play my game but I don't want to have to buy it again through Steam. Please someone help.

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P.S, I have used the search function on Dolphin to eradicate everything I can find of the two launchers and the game but I'm convinced there's something left behind that's messing things up.

Edit: I just remembered I do have this one log I saved when seeking help in Discord but I can't add files and it's quite long to paste into this post.

So long story short Gemini and myself spent an inordinate amount of time running command after command to try to get the trcc to work via the pipx install, we finally got to a point where the best thing to do was restart from scratch. I asked for a different approach so we went with cloning the git, this was partially successful but I still need help...

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Hey everyone, looking for a bit of help getting the TRCC Linux GUI to launch.

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Current State:

OS: Fedora Workstation (KDE Plasma)

Hardware: Thermalright Peerless Assassin LCD

Installation: Cloned via Git to ~/thermalright-trcc-linux

Status: The daemon is successfully running in the background via a systemd user service (python3 -m trcc daemon), and the physical LCD screen works perfectly.

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The Issue:

Whenever I try to launch the GUI (using python3 -m trcc gui, trcc gui, or a desktop entry executing the module), it throws errors or tries to spin up a completely fresh hardware instance instead of connecting to the running background daemon/API stream.

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Has anyone successfully mapped the client GUI to talk to an active user systemd service with this setup? Thanks!

So I have 2 drives. Drive 1 I want to be for the os/distro (Fedora in this case) plus all other files bar games.

Drive 2 I want to be dedicated to just games (Inc respective launchers like Steam & Heroic etc).

How can I make this happen? I have launchers installed but no games yet so reinstalling launchers is perfectly acceptable. Whilst I do need it explained to me like I'm 5, I would like to learn as much as possible however Linux specific language is still very alien to me. Thank you for your time and patience.

Edit: Solved

Right now a very significant % of the population across the world is employed by respective governments or their jobs exist because of government, top this with there always being on average 4-5% of respective populations being unemployed for whatever reason. The job market would be completely and utterly flooded with people from a very varied pool of disciplines as well as many people loosing the value of their experience completely due to redundancy.

How could this possibly be remedied with an Ancap transition without completely devaluing the labour of anyone?

How about roads and other public infrastructure, how could that possibly be privatised without giving a small number of a people a very unbalanced advantage?