Yep, my govt only cares about porn, manga, hentai, online gambling sites, reddit and duckduckgo.

Other alternatives that work on Linux as well as Windows (I haven’t tried it on windows)

https://github.com/bol-van/zapret

I use GoodbyeDPI and Zapret with dnscrypt-proxy, it works perfectly

Just like me, I also grew up with Windows XP and still playing Master of Orion on Linux today.

Just use KDEConnect or LocalSend, it’s not safe to use RDP to share files.

Cisco operates from the ISP side, they’ll poison DNS through their routers. And you should be aware that your ISP will employ Deep Packet Inspection which can also be done with Cisco routers. That means they can intercept internet traffic, especially if your internet connection is not encrypted.

Mander is not the only instance having this issue. Other instances like lemmy.nz (it was), reddthat also aussie.zone, monyet.cc have similar issue since months ago. I assume the culprit is cogent’s de-peering drama not from lemmy itself.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/9896-ntt-cogent-peering-dispute-increasing-latency-for-some-routes

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1cu13bv/cogent_depeering_tata/

And those lemmy instances are hosted in APAC.

Also you can check federation issue with this

https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.world

And if I’m not mistaken our admin has solution regarding the issue a while ago, you may ask Dave.

Yes, and you can join R10C telegram group

https://t.me/Redmi10CGlobal

You’ll find many tutorials and custom roms

Those linux laptops are too expensive and they are not available in some countries

Used thinkpad is much cheaper

Yup they can mess up the fediverse in the near future

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/06/meta-is-a-danger-to-the-fediverse/

https://fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/

And there’s Google’s with their new privacy policy states that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models

https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html

They only cares about money and unlimited growth.