That’s true too.

Dems who support Israel don’t have my support. That said, our system is so f’d I’d rather vote for supporters of genocide than supporters of pedophiles.

I think you just explained why I do this. I thought I had just developed an addiction to the news over the past six months, but this hit me.

I see where I can change DNS for WiFi in iOS settings, but cellular requires an app. It sounds like VPN without the security?

If Verizon is throttling, would that be circumvented by a VPN connection?

Used Ookla. Got 40 Mbit down off VPN, 2.25 on VPN.

Will continue using this in future tests. I don’t watch Netflix on my phone. I usually am browsing Lemmy, YouTube, or listening to Apple Music. Fast.com has been my indicator of why my speed is so slow off of VPN when using these services on cellular. While it might not be an ideal speed test, its results track with my connections performance with these services.

That is to say, at times I’ll find myself not on VPN, find that my videos are chugging, turn VPN on, and problem solved. I usually only turn it off if I’m on home WiFi.

Dunno about where Charter was routing. Just knew it was a common best practice for users in my town to manually set their DNS to Google.

Charter became Spectrum and since then this hasn’t been a need.

So far as cellular goes, I don’t think I can manage my IP settings on the phone as one would on Windows. I already use VPN if I travel or use public WiFi, and learned that, holy shit, my speeds are far better while connected than not. So I stay connected almost all the time. It’s counter intuitive, but I can’t argue with the results.

Routing. Back in the day, Charter customers experienced horrible download speeds using Charter’s DNS servers.

Switching to Google’s would result in far more reliable network speeds.

Tell me you’re a dickhead without telling me you’re a dickhead.

I use VPN because it actually speeds up my connection on cellular. My theory is the DNS servers that Verizon uses in my area are inefficient, to the point where I’ll get 1 Mbit down on Verizon, but 100 Mbit down connected to Proton VPN.

It has nothing to do with security, unless I’m in a coffee shop on WiFi.

Edit: here are my speeds on cellular, first without VPN, second while connected to a server in Los Angeles.

Medals for days / he been had medals

Never played multi. I reinstalled yesterday and have had no problems. It looks and plays amazing. Very happy to see this working now.

• AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• XFX Speedster MERC310 AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX 24GB GDDR6
• Corsair Vengeance DDR5 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30
• Gigabyte X870E AORUS Elite WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard
• 4 TB Samsung NVME

It’s a Logitech G29. I’ve read that other distros do not have this issue, that it’s something to do with Bazzite being an immutable operating system. Does Nobara have a gaming mode? I like Bazzite because it feels like Steam Deck.

I reinstalled after this thread. I no longer have performance issues! I’m on AMD. Hell yes.

Support and protect this person and leaders like them. Fight for them.

There are sacrifices. Space Marine 2 doesn’t work despite having a beast of a machine. It seems to be optimized for Windows / Nvidia. I can’t use my racing wheel. It is detected as a device, but I’m unable to configure it due to how Bazzite sandboxes devices and programs from each other.

Eventually these may be resolved. In the meantime, I’m playing Kingdom Come 2 and Arc Raiders along with hopping around a massive backlog playing 5-30 min of games I’ve accumulated over the years, like wandering a massive arcade. Any given evening, I turn on the TV, switch to input 1 and there’s the Steam Deck UI where I left it last. No mysterious reboot showing me a Windows login, no surprise, required Windows update forcing me to wait 15 min before I can start playing.

It’s fucking awesome.

I’ve dabbled with Linux over the past 25 years. Last November, I built a high end gaming PC spec’d for Bazzite.

I haven’t touched Windows for gaming in over 4 months.