thank you @DownPW

I don’t know how I missed this, but I found out that there is a reflector.service and a reflector.timer service that should both be enabled and started. My understanding is that if you enable and start the reflector.timer service, that it will trigger the reflector.service to update the mirror list. I wanted to make sure I was covered either way and enabled and started them both. The commands are below to do this. sudo systemctl enable --now reflector.service sudo systemctl enable --now reflector.timer Of course you can find the source material here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector

@Madchatthew yeah, I’ve seen these posts all over LinkedIn

@DownPW I haven’t tried either of those, I am sure they run fast as well. Linux is so versatile it is awesome!

@phenomlab or Challenge Accepted haha

@DownPW of course. As I mentioned in the first post, Sudonix isn’t going anywhere. It’ll continue to be free as it always has been.

@Muhammad-Abdan-Farooqui Welcome! i’m currently using (and recommend) Bitdefender. For my sins, I’m using Windows, but need this for teams and Office365 integration (otherwise I’d always choose Linux). Have you looked at the Bitdefender product for MAC? https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/consumer/antivirus-for-mac

@cagatay That is quite the jump as importers from one forum platform to another are notoriously unreliable and could land up being quite costly if it requires managed services.

@JAC that is crazy. I wish i could impose a fine to them for $1 billion dollars and they would have to pay it haha

@DownPW said in From VPN to Spyware: The FreeVPN.One Chronicles: With rare exceptions, if it’s free, either you’re the product or it’s no good Yeah, you got that right!

@Vijay-Kumavat Yes, both are well documented here if you search the forum.

@phenomlab said in Arch Server Progress: PITA LOL yes for sure!!

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@phenomlab LOL yep that is right, because there was a huge stack of them, I remember and it seemed like it took forever to go through the whole stack. Then you had to install drivers for each device. Oh the good ole days haha

@phenomlab I am using bitwarden as well. I haven’t purchased the upgrade, but am thinking about it. It doesn’t bother me to have to open the bitwarden authentication app separately since i am used to doing that.

@JAC those speeds are indeed possible over light as a transport medium (if you consider the speed) but I can’t comprehend the distance quoted. If you happen to encounter a solid obstacle, the beam is either absorbed, or deflected meaning the data never arrives.

@phenomlab I will have to test this out in my virtual environment. I have an Arch KDE Plasma install in virtualbox that I am testing a bunch of things out before I actually wipe the hard drive and install linux. I am currently in the process of copying my Arch test web server over to virtualbox on linux to make sure that it works. This is the virtual server that I test updates on before updating the production server. I can’t remember the error I was getting but I think it had to do with the network device. That was on the virtualbox side. So the cloud storage will be the next thing that I test.

@Madchatthew yes, works well for us.