I haven’t heard of Air VPN. They been around long?

If you like fascism and crypto

“he’s different” is not praise and it damn sure isn’t “singing” it. And comparing this to the trump situation is just braindead. They literally say he’s sent from God.

That’s fair. Sorry 🥺

Gotcha. I made the mistake of signing up for years on a meh VPN because it was cheap. Then after some issues I started a trial of Nord. It was better so I wish hadn’t subscribed to the other one for so long, since I probably wasted at least $100 on that fiasco.

Yeah. Several of us tried to train him. He was not only not as good as he seemed in the interview, he didn’t care to learn.

“Someone represented themselves as being very interested in development and getting better at it. It’s obviously not their fault if all that was bullshit!”

It is a long story but yeah it was about 80% management’s fault and 20% the fault of the dude having zero ambition. I didn’t expect this comment to get so many downvotes… it’s as though I would need to explain that I’m not entirely blaming him for continuing to be employed in a problematic manner as he was. Obviously management should have addressed the issue and didn’t, but why am I not allowed to blame a person for sucking at their job… ? If the idea is that if I thought he sucked I should have fixed it, that’s silly, but regardless I did try to teach him things. He never retained anything, so after a few months I gave up.

Why? Because if you know you have virtually no freedom in regards to your own property, it seems to follow that it would be a deal breaker.

Pretty much. We had the worst junior dev ever and he never got better for a period of two years because he was coddled and allowed to keep submitting horrible code. He was laid off, thankfully honestly, but if there weren’t budget cuts I feel like he never would’ve improved and just kept wasting everyone else’s time.

Edit: the point I was making here is that coddling him kept from either being fired or getting better. Not sure why people cannot understand that more than one thing can be true. In this case that the dude is a horrible dev and also that management dropped the ball. I tried to teach him shit. When he didn’t improve I let my manager know how things were going. Nothing happened to him for literal years.

And as the cherry on top here he said he was going to start some kind of businessy-sounding machine learning degree program, after he was let go in layoffs. So yeah the dude knows he sucks at coding but definitely wants in on the AI grift.

Not a second time, no.

Quit simping for billionaires, fucking morons.

If you read their comment and still thought they were doing that, you’re the problem here.

Also, it’s possible to not hold an extreme position for or against everything. Pretty easy to see he’s better than others and also realize that doesn’t make him “good.”

It’s indeed shocking!

Thanks. Will keep that in mind. I’ve spent too much on VPNs recently but when I near subscription lapse(s) I will strongly consider Mullvad.

Ah that’s good to know. I think it may offer support via wire guard or something.

It’s backed by fascist psychopath Peter Thiel and it, at least for a long time, promoted a crypto scam as a main browser feature.

You’re probably right, but, even ignoring how much trouble it is to switch, it just seems crazy to me because “I would prefer an iPhone” is a sentiment I just cannot understand in the context of a user who knows basically anything about the two platforms. Apple has always exerted authoritarian control over iOS. Blows me away that anyone who knows it is okay with that. And no, it doesn’t “just work”. And no, it is not truly more secure.

See it’s different when you actually directly cause the price increase with an unjustifiable war. That’s somehow better.

Not sure why you deleted this but I just found out Mullvad doesn’t support open VPN which is a deal breaker for me because I use a few different apps via docker with their traffic routed through https://hub.docker.com/r/qmcgaw/gluetun