Even with https if you aren't on TLS 1.3 the SNI (server name indicator) is not encrypted so the hostname you are trying to access would be visible to your ISP.
Forcing your browser to only use TLS1.3 would fix that but who knows how many sites it would break.
Unauthorized VPNs (non government approved) are illegal in China. If a business needs their own they can get approval but they have to apply for those exceptions.
It isn't really enforced, probably especially so for non citizens, but if you do something they don't like it is something they could use against you.
You would probably be less breaking the law to just directly open up SSH and access that instead of tunneling through a VPN. Even though SSH can do tunneling of its own.
Connection refused is generally a network level issue meaning that a firewall is rejecting the tcp handshake, or more likely samba is not listening on that IP.
So you are attempting to connect to your samba server and the OS (not Samba) is saying there is no service running on that port so I am refusing your connection request.
So you have one of these problems
Even if those interface names are correct sometimes network managers rename interfaces. So when Samba starts that might be the wrong interface name, but by the time you login it is correct. I would just remove that line and the bind interfaces only line as well unless you specifically need to bind to specific interfaces.
Try connecting to samba from the server itself on 127.0.0.1, which will probably work just fine because lo is probably a correct interface.
You can also look at what interfaces/IP samba is listening on by running one of these commands as root
ss -tlp | grep 445
netstat -nlp | grep 445
A lot of the Qanon stuff was about draining the swamp by arresting all of the pedo Dems.
They were basically told everything they see in the media is a cover for the real plan to catch these people and that there are already all sorts of sealed indictments that they are just waiting to execute at once, etc.
So some of his most rabbid supporters are realizing something is up about denying this even exists.
Your $1 has absolutely changed in value by 10pm. What do you think inflation is? It might not be enough change for the store to bother changing prices but the value changes constantly.
Watch the foreign exchange markets, your $1 is changing in value compared to every other currency constantly.
The only difference between fiat and crypto is that changing the prices in the store is difficult, and the volume of trade is high enough to reduce volatility in the value of your $. There are plenty of cases of hyperinflation in history where stores have to change prices on a daily basis, meaning that fiat is not immune to volatility.
To prevent that volatility we just have things like the federal reserve, debt limits, federal regulations, etc that are designed to keep you the investor (money holders) happy with keeping that money in dollars instead of assets. The value is somewhat stable as long as the government is solvent.
Crypto doesn't have those external controls, instead it has internal controls, i.e. mining difficulty. Which from a user perspective is better because it can't be printed at will by the government.
Long story short fiat is no different than crypto, there is no real tangible value, so value is what people think it is. Unfortunately crypto's value is driven more by speculative "investors" than by actual trade demand which means it is more volatile. If enough of the world changed to crypto it would just as stable as your $.
Not saying crypto is a good thing just saying that it isn't any better or worse. It needs daily usage for real trade by a large portion of the population to reduce the volatility, instead of just being used to gamble against the dollar.
Our governments would likely never let that happen though, they can't give up their ability to print money. It's far easier to keep getting elected when you print the cash to operate the government, than it is to raise taxes to pay for the things they need.
The absolutely worthless meme coin scams/forks/etc are just scammers and gamblers trying to rip each other off. They just make any sort of useful critical mass of trade less and less plausible because it gives all crypto a bad name. Not that Bitcoin/Ethereum started out any different but now that enough people are using them splitting your user base is just self defeating
When you saw that 20v on the board I assume that was right next to the charge port? There are often fuses that should be very close to that connector that you can check for continuity on. Usually marked with zeros because they act like a zero ohm resistor.
Even if the fuse is blown that might just be a sign that something further down the line failed but it would be an easy thing to check at least.
I am not exactly an expert at this but it could just be from heat. Do you have a multimeter to check if current can pass through it still?
Either way it seems like this shouldn't be affecting the laptop when plugged in because it is so close to the battery connector and it looks like the traces are related to the battery connector.
Do you get anything at all (battery/power LEDs) trying to run off of the battery? Is it possible that the charge port failed and the battery is just dead now? Maybe check the battery voltage to see how far drained it is.
Yeah it is pretty bad when an emulator offers a better experience than even a modded Switch.
Easy to load your choice of directory sync tool (i.e. NextCloud Sync Client/Synology Drive Client/etc, or Google Drive/OneDrive if you are on Windows) pointed at your emulators save directory and have your own automatic cloud sync that you have full control over, built in versioning, the works.
Nope, the switch only keeps saves on the internal storage or synced to their cloud if you pay for it. When doing transfers between devices like this there is no copy option only a move and delete.
There are some legitimate reasons they want to prevent this like preventing users from duplicating items in multiplayer games, etc. Even if you got access to the files they are encrypted so that only your user can use them.
I think the bigger reason they do this is there are occasionally exploits that are done through corrupted saves. So preventing the user from importing their own saves helps protect the switch from getting soft modded.
If you mod your switch you can get access to the save files and since it has full access it can also decrypt them, so that you can back them up. One of several legitimate reasons to mod your switch.
I just did a playthrough recently and I think it holds up pretty well. A lot of wasted time on little cutscenes like opening Atla/boxes, and switching characters that gets quite annoying, but gameplay was fine.
One or two bosses that are difficult but a little leveling up, or wiki hints on how to cheese them, and they are a piece of cake. Once you hit the ship dungeon and have easier access to backrooms (since you can buy the fish to enter them) you can grind for gemstones and you end up being able to one hit almost everything from there on out.
Grinding gets a bit boring after a while, I'll admit I enabled some fish point cheats in my emulator after I had one character with a maxed out weapon. Clear that I could easily do it myself but wasn't going to waste that time to upgrade the other weapons I wanted leveled up.
Probably a terrible idea but have you considered a private Lemmy instance? At the end of the day Lemmy/PieFed/Reddit are just forums with conversation threads and upvotes.
Lemmy is probably way more of a resource hog than the other various php options but from a usability standpoint if you have a favorite Lemmy mobile app it would work for your private instance as well.
There appears to be a private instance mode that disables federation.
Presumably the cert would be a smart card (similar to credit card chips) protected with a pin. And they can use revocation lists to remove cards that are reported stolen.
There would have to be a serial number at the least but that would change every time your card expired, and the government would certainly know who is issued what serial.
Another downside is users would need smart card or NFS readers to use them. Smart cards have been around for digital identification for decades now, it's really surprising that more government haven't pushed their use. From a user perspective though it would be pretty quick that every online service would start requiring them and any online anonymity would erode pretty quickly.