Ah, sorry, my bad. I must’ve skimmed too quickly.
must admit that incident in 2018/19 did put me off, so went with ExpressVPN for a couple of years, recently had a bad experience with them as they tried to auto-renew even when I had disabled it (twice!), so decided to give nord VPN a chance (everyone deserves a second chance I reckon). So far so good, but any further ‘incidents’ and I’ll be off.
Mullvad sounds promising. Cost is higher than Nord of course. Just read that it has kill switch on by default on app. Nord doesn’t. Needs enabling and it’s a bit finicky, cause after using VPN we need to go to app settings and disable the kill switch before using internet with ‘normal’ connection. Don’t know if it’s the same with Mullvad.
Mullvad is 5 euro per month no matter the increment. Nord requires you to commit for a year for the same price and is only cheaper if you buy in 2 year blocks which is quite crazy.
yeh, it is. I’m committed until November 2023. Took out plan in July 2021. Did get 4 months free. It was 89 USD for 28 months (3.18 USD p/m or converted to EUR around 2.80 EUR p/m)
It’s kind of broken to commit to a service for years that might go out of business, get sold to someone, or otherwise prove unreliable. The only electronic service it makes sense to commit to multiple years is domain names.
Are you sure void Linux is supported by mullvad? Their support pages say this: “Installation requirements
The app works on most modern 64-bit Linux distributions with systemd.
We support only the distributions listed on our app download page.”
The distributions are .Deb and .rpm. nord on the other doesn’t say anything about only supporting ‘distributions listed on their support page’.
It’s not hypothetically supported but one can convert and install their deb which puts most of its files in /opt along with standard stuff like a binaries in /usr/bin icons in /usr/share/icons etc
xdeb -Sde MullvadVPN-2021.6_amd64.deb
sudo xbps-install -R binpkgs mullvad-vpn-2021.6_1
It is only designed around systemd insofar as it provides a systemd unit and not a runit service
I made a service for its daemon the entirety is
#!/bin/sh
exec "/opt/Mullvad VPN/resources/mullvad-daemon" 2>&1
I have not installed Mullvad yet, how would I connect to the VPN? I am incredibly new to Void (and runit). I would like assistance with this. Thank you!
If you use its client you open the client and then click the large green button marked secure my connection. You can also run the command /usr/local/bin/mullvad connect or if /usr/local/bin is in $PATH simply mullvad connect|disconnect.
You can do a variety of operations at the cli including picking a location for your relay and including or excluding a particular PID from the vpn. A neat trick is to have a command to get the pid of the focused window and include or exclude it from the vpn. For example excluding one browser from the vpn tunnel so you can watch netflix.