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Zerotier does not use wireguard and even in Android I can see a slightly bigger drain while using a VPN app, as it is using resources in the background after all (you can easily see that with adb or a rooted device), if you are not a battery freak then that’s fine I guess, I live in a 3rd world country where I can seed torrents 24/7 and ISP will never care, and VPN are a hassle to me at best, I only use them when I needed, AKA when I want to bypass CGNAT and access my Synology NAS/Plex server.

I heavily debloated my Nvidia Shield TV and whenever I activate Proton VPN I can see it takes its resources which might affect my also heavily customized Kodi setup lol, that’s why I don’t like to run VPNs there either.

Yes, Pi-hole helps, it is not as good as an inbuilt adblocker or a more capable one like Ublock Origin, but it is better than nothing :)

Do you have an iOS device? I remember mentioning battery drain issues with either Zerotier or Tailscale due to poor background process management with iOS.

Yes, I don’t think anyone thinks otherwise, but built in adblockers are better than DNS adblockers, which consecutively are better than nothing lol (also you could pair both I guess and get an improved experience).

Ah, here we are again at the stage of hating the company that makes the games but loving the games it makes…

Just curious, any other companies that ring that bell?

You got downvoted but it is true, it doesn’t while other browsers do, and block ads which is a nice plus.

Firefox offers extension support and that is a reason to forgive it a lot of lacks… But we shouldn’t be conformist about the fact that the Android/iOS client needs a lot of work.

Perhaps if you tell us which DNS you are using.

I have tried it and while it works, DNS adblocking (and the hassle to remember to turn on the VPN for browsing) doesn’t works as good nor is as smooth as using a browser with AdBlock support, or Ublock Origin extension.

Apple does not allow other browsers than Safari on iOS. All other browsers are just reskins of Safari.

And yet only Brave blocks ads effortlessly…

Of course it is an Apple issue in the core, but unless Firefox includes a proper ad blocking frautre (no add-ons needed because that’s unlikely to happen in iOS) is also a Firefox issue, and I I’d say the main reason why it loses market when competing against Brave in such a closed environment.

I choose Brave instead of Vivaldi in Android as a second browser just because of 1 feature:

Vivaldi won’t force dark mode in all the websites WHEN the device is in dark mode only, it includes a toggle to on or off only and it doesn’t care if the device is light or dark.

I use automatic light/dark mode and Brave and Firefox (with the Dark Reader extension) works well with this.

Also the Vivaldi team is aware of this lacking feature since years ago but they can’t seem to fix it somehow… That’s fine by me, I can work my way without it.

Because it is still Chromium based and it means it is fast on Android, plus it comes packed with an adblocker by default which works wonders in closed out systems like iOS, also as many browsers (not all of them) it supports account syncing which it is always a nice plus (I can use a good working version of Brave in all the systems and keep a good flow for example).

I main Firefox in pretty much all the systems, but the Android app is missing a lot of features like tab management, and the iOS client just sucks (Brave works better there despite being Safari based too).

It is funny because it is true.

At this point you can expect anything from Isekais.

I am an old school anime watcher and Digimon is my favorite Isekai lol, but I am open to watching other stuff (I watched Re:Zero… And I like it… At times).

I wouldn’t call Friends a show everybody must tee before they die. Also not one Star Trek made it here.

And that is why we have opinions, I wouldn’t have included Star Trek in a watch before to die list ;)

I have seen pics of the screen and honestly it looks so good, what kind of screen is it? (I know it is an OLED) like, you’d expect these companies to use very cheap panels or so.

Thank you!

I could subscribe to most of the community replacements with the Voyager app!

(Summit wasn’t translating the links).

I kinda find it crazy that our phones are called smart phones and yet they’re dumbed down unnecessarily…

Maybe it is not completely related, but that’s why I keep certain activities for PC only (like using it to buy stuff for example).

Compared against a Switch 1, yes, it is a crazy deal, but I’d personally wait for a more powerful handheld, or a successor at least in 2025 (almost 2026) that truly competes against more recent PC handhelds, including the Switch 2.

I think the iPhone 5s would be the one that fits the question IMO.

Maybe I am a bit biased as I want to get a OnePlus Nord 4 (although I will better wait for the 5th) but I really like its design, and the design is like the last thing I care about a phone 😅 (I always end up setting a cheap screen protector and a cheap case).

Ahh, classic style.