Price is a big one. That aside I didn’t like the interface, I couldn’t consistently find the results I was looking for, and again price.

I’d maybe be willing to pay $5 a month for a good search engine. $10 a month even. But $10 a month knowing half my money is paying for bundled AI searches I never wanted nor asked for is a bridge to far. I’m not militantly anti-AI, but I don’t want to be forced to pay for it if I want Kagi to be even remotely useful (300 searches is a joke).

To make it known that there is this belief, and there is not unanimous support for Kagi.

Kagi is trash. I can’t be bothered elaborating.

How I Learned to Skate

At one point they make you control two characters at once. There is no way I’m doing that, not in a million years.

How much money a game is worth matters far less than how much time it’s worth. Most people have very limited time to play games, more so than they have limited money.

flatpaks are objectively better though.

DNS over HTTPS encrypts your DNS queries, which means at most your ISP can see what sites you visit and not what you’re doing on those sites.

Depending on the infrastructure used by the site, your ISP might also not even know what site you’re visiting.

I don’t, I use DNS over HTTPS. That’s far more fitting for my threat model right now.

There are public DNS servers that can filter for you. Control D and Adguard.

I don’t get why people recommend PiHole.

Control D or Adguard DNS.

“Let me join you next time you need to poop then”

Stock Firefox.

There are some that were fixed, but fixed with great effort. The hole in the ozone layer for example.

My final answer will be overpopulation. Personally though I think the population should be about 1 billion just so I don’t feel quite as much existential dread at my own insignificance.

They can see the timing and packet size for your requests to the VPN server, as well as what your VPN provider is. On the VPN’s end they can see what sites the users (collectively) are visiting, the packet sizes, and the timing. That information alone is enough to identify who is doing what with reasonable accuracy.

This is before issues of using the government’s massive resources to brute-force encryption, possible government backdoors in VPN servers, and browser fingerprinting.

There are various steps that can be taken to mitigate this, and this of course assuming the government has access to the ISP’s metadata from both your network and the server’s network (not a stretch, but not necessarily guaranteed).

Did they not already have an army of lobbyists?

I assumed they did, given the amount governments are bending over backwards for them.

I’m not sure the topic is really about privacy, but if your threat model requires a VPN + Tor, you’re already screwed.

The government can see the metadata of your requests. With enough metadata they can identify what you’re doing. Adding a second layer doesn’t really change that.

I stopped watching him myself for a few reasons.

Firstly because I watched that 3.5 hour documentary on the Nvidia AI GPU black market and thought “this could’ve been an email”. I gained next to nothing from the time I spent on it and I did not enjoy it. The same applied to the rest of his videos too.

Secondly because I’ve started to be pro-professionalism, and Gamers Nexus lacks professionalism such as in his dealings with LTT.

iVPN, PrivadoVPN, Windscribe and ProtonVPN are generally considered leaders in the space IIRC.

Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux.

Why OpenSUSE specifically?

Firstly, my general rule is “upstream or Mint (because screw snaps)”. CachyOS was a decision I made prior to this rule but otherwise I have 6 options (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and OpenSUSE).

• A rolling release is out of the question, so Arch’s out.
• Ubuntu’s always out.
• Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux. I value security so Mint and Debian are out.
• Fedora tends to adopt new technologies fast, which isn’t really what I want.

So by process of elimination, OpenSUSE it is.

Another part of it is nostalgia. I used it briefly when I was first switching to Linux full-time. I ran into various issues and moved off it. Private internet access wouldn’t install, I didn’t even know what proprietary media codecs were at the time, and tumbleweed had a few bugs that caused me trouble. Despite all that, I’m nostalgic for it partly because of the themes I ended up installing.