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I don't know what stingray is, but if it needs a connection to somewhere and the protocol to connect verifies os-trusted certificates, it should be safe.

Set OPNSense default policy

As far as I remember, OPNSense has a default policy rule of "deny all incoming, allow all outgoing". If not, this should be one of the first steps to take.

Get your own VPN

If you can, you could use your own VPN service. I run a VPS for 6 € / month. If you can get your hands on something like this and install an openvpn server, you could always use that VPN for every connection.

So even if an attacker highjacks your connection somehow, he would only be able to see encrypted content and all content will be encrypted by a server you own and can verify / trust. You could also integrate this VPN into your OPNSense, so you'll be connected as soon as OPNSense starts up and has internet.

Regarding MITM attacks

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but MITM attacks should generally be impossible when connecting to SSL backed connections, right?

These certificates (or rather the certificate authority the HTTPS certificates have been issued by) are generally trusted by your own operating system. Therefore, if someone wanted to highjack your connection without you getting some kind of certificate error, he would have needed to get his hands on a certificate issued by a worldwide trusted certificate authority and the address name matching the certificate.

MageQuit was way more hilarious than I initially thought. I went to a friend to play another 2 or 3 games over the span of 6 to 8 hours. We started with MageQuit and suddenly, it was 8pm. We also played MageQuit and nothing else the next time we met.

It's going to be very funny when we finally all gather and play a free-for-all 6 player match.

Every cent was well spent on this one.

I only use my steam deck for portable, local multiplayer games. Well, except for when I play Pokemon Red / Blue / Yellow with EmuDeck.

I mostly find new titles via filtering by local multiplayer tags and buying stuff that's on sale and looks interesting. If it looks good but isn't on sale, I throw it on my wishlist-pile. There's plenty of fun stuff for couch multiplayer sessions!

The last time, we played

• Make Way
• Road Redemption
• Lethal League Blaze

All time favourites

• Super Smash Brothers 64 / Brawl / Ultimate
• MageQuit
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• SpeedRunners

Ha, that would've helped me a few times. Good to know!

Still, I wouldn't switch vim for nano ever again. nano is a good and easy start, but I think if you do more than just basic editing of a few files every now and then, learning vim is the way to go.

vim is pretty customizable, widespread and it has been around for quite some time after all. If you think you need it, somebody most likely already made it as a vim-plugin :)

vim was such an unimaginable improvement over nano for doing stuff on linux servers. Having an in-shell-editor search-and-replace function alone is worth everything you have to do to learn vim.

And after I was comfortable around vim because of all the "training" on servers, I just switched to vim fulltime. No more GUI editor for me!

My smartphone sleeps in a different room than I do, we're not THAT close. So I need to physically move to another room to stop the alarm in the morning.

Ah, yeah, "most users don't care" is true. Being the only IT guy in my social circle, I can verify this :D

I've been interested in computers and IT generally for more than 2 decades by now, so I don't think my experience reflects the experience of a standard user.

It didn't take long for me to grasp the concept of the fediverse and federation in general and I really like that specific aspect of lemmy. Still, I think there should be an infographic like the this somewhere visible or mentioned and linked directly on join-lemmy.org for new users to understand. It's a very nicely summarized text with visualizations of what this actually means in practical terms. If you've been living your whole life in the "single-owner" Microsoft / Apple / Android circle, the terms "decentralized" and "federated" might seem like foreign concepts.

I found the linked infographic in the "welcome" thread for new users on lemmy.world.

I joined lemm.ee because it was the most active of all the servers, but in retrospect, I should've joined sh.itjust.works just for the name. FYI - the second most active lemmy server (when sorting by activity on join-lemmy.org) is lemmynsfw.com, so congrats to beating the horny people!

It's also interesting to see which communities you really subscribe to in a completely new network. On reddit I joined so many subreddits, sometimes just on a whim. And now, most of them don't even interest me anymore. A nice, fresh start, really is the perfect time to apply the lessons learned from past mistakes.

[EDIT]

I'm using the Voyager for Lemmy app on Android as that one is open source and on GitHub. And the progressive-web-app version can be self-hosted in a docker container.