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  • Alternatively, you can download Amnezia VPN client app on your phone or PC, and it has this amazing function where you provide the IP and root credentials, and it installs server software automatically.

    Obviously, only use it when you don’t have other things running on your server.

    Advantages:

    • No need to install anything manually, just direct Amnezia VPN client to a blank Linux server or VPS
    • You can install all sorts of protocols in this manner, not only AmneziaWG (which often fails in Russia, for example). Options include OpenVPN (basic and over Shadowsocks/Cloak), classic Wireguard, IPsec, Xray.

    Disadvantages:

    • It doesn’t show the SSH terminal as it goes installing things on your server and goes fully automatic, reducing user control and troubleshooting capabilities.







  • Depends on what you mean by that.

    Stupid as in not grasping some concepts quickly?

    Education is just a narrow overview of a particular field. Once you’re out the narrow scope of what you’re taught - it’s all about your general knowledge. I know a world-class physicist who does not comprehend basic things about society, economy, relationships etc. And, working in a scientific field, I see plenty of such examples.

    Stupid as in unable to aggregate data and synthesize understanding?

    The state of modern tech and media more broadly eats heavily into people’s attention span. People have harder time concentrating, and it gets so much worse when they need to aggregate all the sources they have. They just don’t have enough short-term memory to keep it all together.

    Stupid as in making weird life decisions?

    Everyone’s life experience is drastically different than yours, and, seeing only the surface, people often downplay what others went through and how it shaped their thinking. Sometimes it introduces genuine logical errors into the behavior, and sometimes it just comes from a much different perspective than you can imagine. In their world, the decisions they make makes sense. In your world, you also normally make sense for yourself, even if you’re actually irrational in one thing or another. This does, by the way, include all the typical political rants - high-ranking politicians and their numerous advisors are unlikely to all be stupid. More likely, these people pursue different interests from what you imagine.

    Overall, the word “stupid” is heavily overused and applied to a lot of different things. So, it always makes sense to clarify, or else it looks more like a rant rather than a genuine question.

    Complaining about people being stupid is as old as the world itself, yet it’s not very productive or done in good faith. Before claiming anyone stupid, try to ask them for their perspective and the way they look at a problem. And if you’re able, unpack what you think is wrong.



  • Alrightie, this worked! I did install Throne. As per sudo before rpm-ostree - it’s not necessary, it just asks for su password if you run it without sudo.

    So, Throne came up with another error, it was unable to change file ownership in /usr directory (of course it couldn’t, it’s an immutable system)…and then it got me.

    I read into the errors given by v2rayN, and checked it on a non0immutable distro…and indeed, my subscription list got blocked right when I started testing TUN on Bazzite a few days ago. Case closed, Bazzite has nothing to do with it.

    But, I learned something about Bazzite repo management, which will be valuable going forward. Thanks a lot for so much effort figuring things out!


  • I got stuck with Terra atm. Bazzite shows that terra-release is indeed installed, yet doesn’t seem to check the repo when installing packages. And, predictably, fails to install either Nekoray or Throne through rpm-ostree install throne

    Assuming it is disabled (as happened in https://github.com/ublueos/bazzite/issues/2580), I wanted to reenable it, but didn’t find any command to do this in rpm-ostree help.

    Attempting dnf5 install throne --enable-repo=terra predictably didn’t work as it’s an immutable system.

    Any ideas or help here? Your help is much appreciated.


  • Nekoray in particular doesn’t have .rpm, so I used the universal executable (NOT the AppImage which doesn’t have TUN capability). With TUN mode enabled, it shows outbound and inbound connections trying to be established, and exchanges of up to 300 singular bytes per second. Needless to say, no Internet resources work. The second I close the connection, everything gets back to normal.

    V2RayN does have rpm and can be installed using rpm-ostree, but enabling TUN and subsequent connection attempt lead to the following log messages appear (<fields> censored):

    <date> <time> from <local IP> accepted <external IP> [proxy-relay-<protocol> -> proxy] <timezone> <date> <time> ERROR [<something> <ping>] dns: exchange failed for <URL>. IN A: EOF

    Same continues for every connection attempt. No actual connection is established.