I’d take sidcos recommendation above for a entry level user. ^
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Says my network can’t configure to it after downloading rise up
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Go to the other link he shared and read. Compare one or two competitors. You can inbox me for any thoughts.
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Did anyone answer this straight for please.i need 
Or did I overlook it
. speed reading to keep wife off me
RemoteDesktop.Google.com should work while VPN runs on two machines. Home and to-go device.
Heres the feed on VPNs from easy to hard difficulty. Security is like an onion, it happens in layers. You gotta read these 2-3 paragraphs (and maybe the thread again) before you get to the easy answers.
If you are trying to avoid being tracked, or communications being read by ANY government agency, while not impossible, requires understanding of ever changing infrastructure and advancing technologies. In the USA we supposedly have the freedom to practice using encryption, proxies, and other safe practices, where in China they might just behead you. Know your laws on the matter.
Let’s say you’re in Canada, and you’re using an American VPN server, you are taking your internet traffic (a request to future4200.com), adding an extra layer of encryption, shooting it across the internet to an American server, where it is decrypted and sent to your destination (future4200.com). To Future4200.com the traffic comes from that server in America, and hopefully I have no idea you are really in Canada. Often media companies like Netflix and sports will geo lock content so it can only be watched from certain locations, flip on the vpn and bam, you’re in a whole different country watching content you’d normally never see. Listeners between your canadian computer and the american server will have a hard/impossible time seeing what the encrypted traffic is. Some ISPs dont like you using p2p networks like torrents, the vpn “tunnels” all traffic, all your ISP sees is 1 connection to 1 server instead of you sharing a file with thousands of peers. All those peers see is the IP of the vpn server and not the one given to you from your ISP.
Heres a list of no trust situations a VPN could help with.
You use unsecure wifi, there are untrusted devices on the network or it’s a monitored network (like a work wifi), your ISP sells your data, geo content restrictions, keeping destination servers from knowing your real IP/location.
– ExpressVPN
– Private Internet Access
– NordVPN
– ProtonVPN
– HideIPVPN
– IVPN
– AzireVPN
– Windscribe
– Avira
– VPNArea
– Surfshark
– AirVPN
– CactusVPN
– Trust.Zone
– SwitchVPN
– PrivateVPN
– WhatTheServer
– ibVPN
– Mullvad
– TorGuard
– Perfect Privacy
– SlickVPN
– HeadVPN
– VPNhub
– CyberGhost
– OVPN
– VPN.ac
– BolehVPN
– Hide.me
These VPNs claim to not keep logs, and most have it setup so you share a single IP address with hundreds / thousands of users making tracking YOu even harder. Some of these take bitcoins, and don’t require real billing information. Read through each one till you hit your sweet spot. Or just roll the dice. Or just get the cheapest one. It’s often the same technology (Software called OpenVPN) with the companies logo and interface all over it so in my experience price doesn’t mean much here.
Due to data collection laws here in the US, I use a US based company and US based server. Feds can put their grubby fingers in international traffic all day but SHOULDN’T be snooping on Americans. Which VPN Providers Really Take Privacy Seriously in 2023? * TorrentFreak has all the right answers for me.
You trust them somewhat to firewall traffic for you, in general you should also be running security measures on your endpoint like an additional firewall, malware protection, antivirus, that kinda stuff, another post for another day.
A lot of companies try to get you to use an app, often closed source and who knows what it does… Do yourself a favor and take a small step to setup your VPN yourself with the widely used, industry standard, unmodified version of OVPN ,or the built in VPN provider for your OS like windows and android have. Manual Setup - SwitchVPN Help Center
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Fun at home lab you can use to poke around.
Visit https://ping.eu/ - note, it tells you your IP address.
There is a list of tools (they call functions), go down the list and try each one.
Online Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookup, WHOIS, Port check, Reverse lookup, Proxy checker, Bandwidth meter, Network calculator, Network mask calculator, Country by IP, Unit converter is simple, just a marco polo response. Often works but some residential, non server IPs do not respond.
https://ping.eu/traceroute/ is the fun stuff, it shows you each hop/server the packet passes through to get from ping.eu to your location. Each of these servers can potentially see your traffic. Most computers have this tool built in (tracert or traceroute on cmd/terminal) if you want a true measure from your computer to another destination like to here.
Online Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookup, WHOIS, Port check, Reverse lookup, Proxy checker, Bandwidth meter, Network calculator, Network mask calculator, Country by IP, Unit converter - see country of an IP address.
https://geoip.com/ - gets you within nuking distance most the time, shows isp IP is registered with.
Explore, have fun, stay safe!
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This is so accurate 
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Sorry man. Haven’t logged on in a couple of days.
@sidco gave a great list.
I have used IPVanish for a few years now and feel pretty comfortable using it on my phone and for downloading. Which I do frequently. But I also pay for the yearly subscription.
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well for the first time in years i have had a nasty virus.
I feel ashamed 
truly ashamed.
so found that the driver support for my surface pro is now near excellent in linux
and thats it good bye nasty borg and hello to a life of fast and reliable computing.
I have a linux server that I have run for years but after trying to run debian on surface
I gave up and ran borg 10.
so in a way I am happy that I got the virus (though still very ashamed)
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Hope you’re doing well! Don’t be ashamed run the course & dose up brother 
I caught a conspiracy using burners. They want ya, they get ya… Would swap them out weekly for the crew but my connect was being followed or set us all up. Only me got caught. I think the weekly burners kept my guys safe.
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I like Linux Mint
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Often times, even if one is good about not activating your burner around your last one, they both frequent the same locations and contact numbers. There is software to look for abnormal behaviors, especially in ‘burner phones’. Often you’ll get 1 number that only gets called by the burner phones, so you can assume any # that calls it may be a suspect.
Happy you can run linux at all! Next up, in time when that surface pro dies, consider replacing it with something that doesn’t have proprietary drivers and can run linux (or android) from the start without issues. Specifically in the Microsoft / Intel vPro world, even if your device is “powered off”, the network card/mic/cam/bt will stay powered on and connect back home with all sorts of data. When the tablet is on, there is nothing stopping MS from simply watching your screen 24/7. You actually agreed to it when you initially turn on your device. If you had control over the device / network card you could choose to not worry about those things.
Good stuff, and a reasonable starting place for most. Better than Ubuntu imo re tracking and privacy. Devuan is a good debian fork / daily runner that doesn’t have systemd. Guix and Gentoo are end game depending on how you use them but take a bit more practice.
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+1 for Qubes OS as endgame if you are technically savvy enough.