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on Fence sitting days are over · c/twitter · -12 pts · 1d

That's a statement of fact.

But knowing this lemmy instance, even that lukewarm statement would get me called a fascist.

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).

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.

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.

The team used advanced spectroscopy techniques to confirm the prototype’s charging behaviour, which showed it retained stored energy for six orders of magnitude longer than it took to charge.

They do say "6 orders of magnitude". So a million times. No idea what the absolute numbers they're dealing with here are, but a million seconds is 11.6 days.