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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Some of the things I have written down, are mostly old so if anything is missing or needs correction, please let me know:

    They have shady origins, no one knows who they are or where they came from, but they did it with enough funds to quickly expand a large worldwide network of servers and an endless aggressive advertising campaign everywhere.

    Misleading advertising, from saying they are the best in the world to adding countdowns to get an offer that restarts when clearing cookies.

    They were hacked and tried to hide it for a very, very long time.

    Their app on mac pings google every 20 seconds. The android app is riddled with trackers. They use a myriad of integrated google services.

    They do not offer open source or audited apps.

    If you cancel the auto-renewal of the service, you lose many secondary services and they charge you weeks before the end of the subscription.

    In short, they are the kind of company that screams that they don’t deserve anyone’s trust, and that’s a big problem for a VPN. I suggest mullvad, they have a long history of good practices, are privacy activists and are backed by companies like mozilla.



  • It is inevitable that there will be a performance loss when using wine, but it is usually quite small. Partially/totally broken games aside, if you have a good pc you won’t notice the difference.

    So, if the fps of games like superhot (a bit ironic example) are terrible for you, I guess there are two options:
    There is something wrong with your setup, for example a gpu with little (or no?) vulkan compatibility, or using the nouveau driver instead of nvida.
    Or the small difference in performance makes a big impact on your toaster, so you should use using something like AtlasOS, while eating toast.



  • The pharmaceutical companies would definitely not cut back on their profits, so at “best” they would either get public money to make it several times faster, or they would cut back on quality and safety (*lobbies have entered the chat); and in either case the final price would be higher.
    There is plenty of room to get worse, even in the current favorable conditions they prioritize known cost-effective palliative treatments over research into expensive solutions that may lead to nothing.

    If the entire health sector were public and concerned itself with saving lives instead of making money, it would be a different story, but that is where we get into major reforms.