Hey @termux, I just installed #termux on a new #GrapheneOS device. When I did
pkg upgrade
, it automatically chose a Chinese mirror although I am in Europe, and I am not using Orbot or any VPN. Should I be worried?
Termux
in reply to Christian Pietsch • • •Christian Pietsch
in reply to Termux • • •Termux
in reply to Christian Pietsch • • •That would be neat... But for privacy reasons we do not want to rely on 3rd party do to the location estimation (which is typically done by trying to geolocate IP address).
We had a mirrorbits service before on our server to handle automatically redirecting to estimated closest mirror, and will likely set it up again at some point, but from user perspective it is still better to manually set closest mirror, to avoid unnecessary redirects
Christian Pietsch
in reply to Termux • • •Rastal
in reply to Christian Pietsch • • •Christian Pietsch
in reply to Rastal • • •That just what I did next, and it helped. But that is just a workaround. I would hate to see more European users defaulting to using Chinese software repositories.