I found deepseek was good for using as a search engine. Lol.

Not really. It’s a grey area. They don’t care about foreigners using vpns at all. It’s kind of expected. Foreign SIMs don’t even face blocks on mobile networks. If you’re going to a sensitive province of China, I think they’ll care slightly more, but as long as you’re not using the VPN to do something illegal, you’ll be okay.

If you will be using roaming for mobile data in China, you won’t face any blocking.

Accessing over cloudflare tunnels or just a normal exposed server works.

VPNs work most of the time. But you can be cut off after like 30 minutes to an hour. I’d recommend only turning it on when you need it.

I’ve been to China very recently.

You will most likely face speed issues, although this may be due to the physical infrastructure itself connecting China to the outside internet isn’t really that stellar. As everything Chinese citizens typically use is hosted in China.

They worked for me most of the time. They cut off after like an hour of use. So I just switch between them.

What’s a better alternative that offer good ddos protection and tunnels

What slop are you posting. And your description sounds AI

Please throw all of your computers and electronic devices into a lake and never buy one again.

Absolutely stupid deal. We’re paying money when we don’t need to. I don’t get the point. Even the Chagossians don’t want it and just want to settle in the archipelago. That can be done under the Indian Ocean territory to some extent. It’s just stupid.

How do you self host it?

Hosting is dead easy. Usually you just do sudo apt-get install apache2 for a start, and then it’ll host an html file on port 80 (HTTP), usually /var/www/html/index.html

w3schools.com is great for learning css and html.

You’d want to forward port 80 on your router then to get it accessible on the open web.

On your domain service, you’ll want to make an A record pointing to your IPV4 address and an AAAA record pointing to your IPV6 address.

If you have a dynamic IP (your IPV4 changes often) you can get scripts which run on a schedule to check your ip address and remotely update your A record using an API from your DNS.

You’ll also want to use certbot (an installable application) to manage an HTTPS certificate, then forward port 443 (HTTPS)

I know this is a very quick rundown, but hopefully it points you in the correct direction!

Linktree? Can’t you just host an html page using apache or nginx?

Flamingos is a much loved admin of feddit.uk ☺️

Trees are FOSS. This is a fork of trees.

Immich has a weird “buy a licence” model which literally does nothing.

Lemmy moment

what you say is respectfully a load of shit.

I was arguing against a UI. You told me what I said was a load of shit. I responded to it. It’s kinda clear how I thought you were trying to argue for a UI with “but nhs bad actually” which I’ve heard a lot of people say when I argue that access to free healthcare is a good reason to stay in the UK

Ours N.H.S is on its knees

And how will a United Ireland fix that, exactly?

police are seriously underfunded

Per capita, the PSNI has more funding than the Gardai Síochána

Sinn Féin are the largest party in the North

Yes, because of constant Unionist Schism. They didn’t gain any seats in the last election. Stormont has 90 MLAs. By party lines, 53 are against a United Ireland, 36 are in favour.

The two problems you listed won’t be magically fixed by a United Ireland - if anything, they’d be made worse. So my point still stands. I wasn’t painting NI as a haven above other European countries - just that a United Ireland is a bad idea and we’re far better off under the current situation. People thought that Brexit would somehow magically fix the UK’s problems. It just made them worse. United Ireland is the same thing, if not on a worse scale.

The UK rejoining the EU doesn’t sound like a bad idea honestly. I keep forgetting we’re not in the EU

I’m Northern Irish.

This is a terrible idea. Northern Ireland is actually doing pretty well, and the standard and cost of living is lower than the Republic. The border is basically not there for British and Irish citizens. It’s just a matter of currency change and speed limit change. The EU backing a United Ireland would cause already a lot more distrust in the EU by Unionists to the point of breaking Stormont again (Keep in mind how difficult it was for Stormont to be happy with the Brexit arrangements)

As a matter of fact, Northern Ireland is actually starting to grow. It now has an economically advantageous position that a United Ireland would destroy. It has mostly customs free access to the UK market, access to the EU single market, and now is one of the few places in the EU single market that can export to the USA with a lower tariff rate. All for the price of a what is essentially line on a map (you can’t even tell exactly where it is IRL, the border isn’t that strongly defined legally or geographically)

Sinn Féin are disliked by both the Irish and British governments. They are the political wing of what once was the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a terrorist organisation.

I know it doesn’t curtail ideologically to either hardline side, but the current arrangement in place is good. I live in Northern Ireland and have lower living costs and more access to social services for free than someone would have in the Republic. In some cases, better than the mainland UK. We pay less for university education than England and also don’t have charges for prescribed medicine or even water usage. Our police are well invested in and Belfast is now one of the safest cities in Europe if you don’t get involved in paramilitary feuds or drug dealing. Life here is good, and a United Ireland would jeopardize that significantly.