OpenVPN? That's what I use at least. Let me know if you find something better.

That one maybe... @tom wireguard.com

Hi there!

Hey! Long time for me too. @lucian, maybe you should re-enable email notifications for a while.

I live near Brighton, U.K.

saarland, germany

New York, United States

Hawaii, United States (great vacation spot, not great to reside; I hate it when people tell me I'm lucky to live here)

Quezon City, Philippines.

Belgium, the french speaking part...

Currently Wageningen, the Netherlands. Within 2 months Åmål, Sweden.

I want to add regions support to Sublevel but I have an UX issue. There should be two selects that exclude each other, one for country and one for the regions of that country.

Massachusetts, U.S.

Brighton, UK

Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Orlando (City Beautiful), FL, U.S.A.

If you're thinking about the Razer Blade Pro, then consider the Dell XPS. I compared the two earlier, and it's a much nicer laptop IMO. There was even a side-by-side picture someone posted on the internet, the XPS looks much nicer than the Razer Blade.

Happy Belated Merry Christmas!

Alienware. Most design software works with both major operating systems so that shouldn't be an issue. I would dual-boot Linux for development.

I can say that right now Linux doesn't work too well on the MacBook Pro with TouchBar. It's touchpad is so big that you need decent plam rejection and I heard Linux also lacks some drivers. I'd imagine the TouchBar itself may be an issue. Having said that, personally I'd encourage you to look at the Dell XPS 13/15 if you're not going for a Mac as it's (in my opinion) much closer to a MacBook in build quality. It also has Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C too. Gaming on the MacBook Pro is hit and miss, you'll get medium settings on recent games but you may find balancing quality and framerates to be hard. It's not designed for gaming.

Previously I've been using PrivateInternetAccess and my service with them has been great. I just switched to CryptoStorm based on its listing at privacytools.io and so far so good. I'm using OpenVPN to connect to it.

I use PrivateInternetAccess which is pretty cheap, although I VPN to the USA. You may be better off using a VPN provider in Europe, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Please do not VPN to the UK though. There are laws here collecting internet traffic (hence my VPN). I use L2TP rather than OpenVPN.

I am using Mullvad[.net] with Viscosity (an OpenVPN client for macOS).

Good. Finally get organized. I think switching from Ubuntu back to Mint really helps with it. I just can't get used to Unity. Cinnamon is where it's at.

Busy with university work, paid work, housing tenancy mess, family & social. Otherwise, I watched The Young Pope drama; I highly recommend it (tears were wrought).

Constant change for change's sake is how Facebook became the monster it is today. But I am curious if @Lucian has any plans for SL. It sounded like it was on the chopping block in the past (and he was open for offers to sell SL). SL seems like a good project to practice/showcase one's skills, and while I don't fully understand what it takes to design, code, and run SL, I'm still impressed.

What do you mean by “liking a post is not optional any longer”? I like (or don’t like) posts all the time.

Consider the Toshiba Chromebook 2 with full HD screen. Dirt cheap Linux machine and Chrome OS is actually a very nice thing to use for mucking about on the interweb. Otherwise hold out for price drops on Macbooks I guess.

Also consider the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, though it more expensive. I would buy one for myself if I needed a new laptop today.

I’m waiting for a MacBook (Pro or not) with a Kaby Lake processor. Intel added H.265 (HEVC) and VP9 hardware decoding. The main reason for this is that I watch videos daily on my laptop because I don’t have a TV.

Laptops are really hard to shop for, I feel your pain. If I had to buy one today, I would probably aim to get something like the asus.com/transform...