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just started trying asking question DeepSeek. Search engines return too many marketing materials, bloggers copy&paste nonsense and, recently, completely stupid AI autogenerated sites.
It is easy to filter them when you working with familiar domain, but trying to learn something completely new - it is better to ask DeepSeek for a summary, and then decide what to explore.
just checked - OpenVPN works just fine if all traffic is local (we use it to access company network).
What is interesting is that since 2022 a lot of sites and host services decided to ban access from Russia. Quite often to a very simple things - nothing related to technology. And I don't remember anybody outside Russia found it crazy. (I am too lazy for VPN and accessed through web.archive.org to the most of the stuff). So, when Russia closes some access it is an attack on the freedom. And when West blocks access from Russia it is protection of the freedom :)
For example, I found about some 'world oldest tree' competition through the news that it banned trees from Russia. Curious enough, I found their site and.... it rejected me by IP.
Running Mint 20 on ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 with GPU installed. It took some time to get it working through GPU on Display Port (but I don't recall what I did). Was fine for ~about year, but recently I am having Telegram crashing when clicked on a picture or video. (Mysteriously, this happens only when displaying through DP with 4k resolution - 1080p is still working).
Other than that no other issues.
I am on a side which sometimes offend, mostly in non-technical details. As you don't see/hear a person, you can't adjust your expressions in real-time (and add some non-verbal layer as well). Then out of the blue your peer becomes offended by something you even did not mean - with chats/e-mails people often add missing nuances of the communication. And that extra layer is combination of their current mood, some believe or disbelieve in people, and your imagination about you.
Sometimes generated confusion is too unexpected and painful for both, so I prefer to limit online discussions to work stuff.
Almost same is here. Somehow decent desktop was always ~$1k here in Russia. Progress was fast in 90x - I was working as a student to get dx386 and finally assembled 486. Then had some Pentium which eventually got fried by PSU (even mouse died that time). So I assembled Phenom x4 925 back in 2009, had GTS250 for a long time. Upgraded slowly some components (like HDD when run out of space), switched to GTX 1060... Still works fine for everything for me. I could easily upgrade everything but I don't like to spend time moving everything to new system :)
Happened few times with me: - I got subscribed to a several telegram groups following same event (last time - Ukraine). Found that I am spending all my time following them, and that guys are often reposting each others. Quickly unsubscribed from most redundant. - Tend to keep few browser with ~1000 'interesting, useful, definitely study - try' stuff. Sometimes I loose whole session for a dumb reason - browser erased it, or I closed main process and then some stupid pop-up window with a single page, etc. And I don't feel I lost anything useful :) Once I spent few days and processed all tabs, put into online links organizer (just found it's name - Pocket), added keywords to everything... and then I managed to accumulate another 1k tabs few more times. Never returned to that sorted stuff.
As per emails - one time I had 6month business trip and worked on customer site, used mostly my second mail account at customer's domain and rarely checked my main account - too many noise there, CC ALL, etc. When I returned back I found ~40k unread letters. So... I created separate outlook file and moved there everything from these 6 month, and never touched it. My logic was if something had anything important to ask me or share they would do it again, or already duplicated request on my second account. After a month I simply deleted that second mail file (~2gb).
When you are getting older you understand that you should balance between consuming and creating. Nobody would remember you or respect your for skillful consuming :)