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But that's several pages of point and click vs. a few lines to copy and paste,
Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don't understand the commands you're pasting in
Who said I don't understand them? I've done point and click tutorials. They don't only take forever to follow, they also take forever to make.
Look at this monstrosity:
https://iopq.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/free-censorship-resistant-vpn-when-you-self-host-with-oracle-free-tier-and-cloudflare/
Holy shit, the copy and paste parts are the easiest parts of them all
Fair; that was mostly a general warning, not necessarily directed at you, because many people do copypaste terminal commands without knowing what they are actually doing.
As long as you understand what a command does, absolutely go for it. No point typing that shit out when somebody else already has