Explained: How to run 2 VPNs on Android simultaneously I had been looking on the internet a method that would enable me to run 2 VPN apps on the same device simultaneously, but just got to solve this.

My setting: I was trying to route all my firewalled traffic (ReThink Firewall) through a proxy to another vpn app. Psiphon Pro (FOSS) can accept traffic from inbound proxy but itself establishes a VPN profile and thus the firewall can’t connect (which too requires to function as a VPN).

VPN app in main profile: Rethink Firewall (FOSS, Fdroid)

VPN app in work profile: Psiphon Pro (Free VPN, Playstore)

Shelter app lets you clone apps using the work profile feature and takes only a few MBs

I used this setup on Android 13 and it works.

Solution:

Using the open source app, Shelter (Fdroid) create a work profile. A work profile can have its own VPN app running along with main (personal) profile’s VPN.

Install and configure the Rethink Firewall on Main profile.

In Shelter, set the Psiphon app to “Allow Cross-Profile Interaction”

Run the Psiphon VPN (app that would accept inbound traffic). In its logs section, see the SOCKS proxy port.

Set the proxy port to the same in Rethink Firewall in the correct way. As, 127.0.0.1:{port}

Now Rethink Firewall is able to tunnel all its traffic into Psiphon Pro (running in work profile)

Thank you! That was enough information for me to find this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/1j74tv0/explained_how_to_run_2_vpns_on_android/

If you don’t want to download without vpn, try a short subscription of debrid or a seedbox

Can you give me an example vpn app so I can play with it myself?

Great software!

Thank you for your answer! Do you think copyparty would work together with Syncthing on the same backing directory, or would they compete for changes etc? Copyparty in this scenario would be for sharing content with friends and occasional remote upload

I have a question, and I want to emphasise thar this is not criticism but a request for dive into technicalities.

In the video you mentioned copyparty has an one-way sync tool. Is there a good reason why it’s not two-way, or is this just something you weren’t motivated to do?

Could it be that the number of users testing tor in safest mode is disproportionate on the EFF site compared to the rest of the internet?

Nextcloud is like Windows 95, it works great when you install it then it just keeps getting slower as you fill it with content

I think Copyparty would be great for that purpose. The only thing you’re missing is a way to expose it to the internet, such as a public IP or some tunnel

But fuck cryptocurrencies, right? They don’t have any use case other than pump and dump schemes.

If you’re reading this and it feels like you, and you got no recognition from your doctors: there are online communities where people share experiences and research medications.

Sample size of 1, I stil get bad weeks or months, but the supplements I’ve found there allowed me to gave good months again. At times, I’m even the old me!

Yup. Most of the time yes. Parts to repair toys were useful, though. Especially one time when the part that broke was a plastic horse (part of a bigger toy) and there’s no way I could make one without the printer, or buy in the scale I needed.

Toys that worked for my kid:

• kazoo, it’s a shitty instrument but pretty fun
• logic puzzles, not a favourite toy but used once in a while

I know a guy who has all kinds of theories about sentient life in the universe, but noone to talk to about them. It’s because they’re pretty obvious to anyone who took a philosophy class, and too out there for people who are not interestes in such discussions. I tried to be a conversation partner for him but it always ends up with awkward silence on my part and a monologue on his side at some point.

So, he finally found a sentient being who always knows what to answer in the form of ChatGPT and now they develop his ideas together. I don’t think it’s bad for him overall, but the last report I got from his conversations with the superbeing was that it told him to write a book about it because he’s full of innovative ideas. I hope he lacks persistence to actually write one.

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You’d have a nice time in court donating to Russia with banking system

English isn’t my first language

Unironically some social security single moms around here are like this

Trakt.tv has a lot of data, and they provide recommemdations

I’m not recommending Perplexity, but when trying it out I clicked some of the sources it used, and I haven’t seen such sites as search results in ages. Articles in personal sites, blogs etc. were not uncommon.

Now I wish for a search engine that would use results from these kinds of sites, without the LLM.