Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
A VPN provider can potentially log every site you visit, just like your ISP.
The actual benefits are mostly practical, being able to access streaming services and other sites from other countries.
It does hide your IP but this isn’t as big a deal as you might think, and moot, if the ISP logs your activity.
It does not provide some special extra layer of encryption. It does encrypt the traffic, but most of the time, it was already encrypted anyway. The vast majority of internet traffic is.
I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.
Maybe? There are ways to limit what apps are able to access the internet. Rooting, or installing a Custom ROM may be possible on your current phone.
I won’t break entirely. It’ll probably mostly work, but a lot of systems in normal android phones do rely on google play services.
Definitely. FOSS apps tend to be entirely local, not phoning home unless there is good reason in the context of the functionality of the app. At the very least, they will more often than not still work, if denied internet access. This doesn’t mean good commercial software doesn’t exist, though.
A VPN is probably not necessary for your privacy. Using one is potentially even a privacy risk, as you then need to trust the company providing it, in addition to your ISP. Your actual internet traffic is encrypted either way, unless you visit websites that do not use HTTPS, which is extremely rare nowadays.
“yeah I’ll violate the constitution, what gave you the impression I wouldn’t?”
But did he say thank you?
Not to mention the backdoor it opens into your soul, for the toxic commumity to pour their verbal detritus into.
The joke is that the games are bad, and the communities too toxic, to be a healthy hobby.
Thereby, a person being prevented from playing is being blessed, not because there is no longer a backdoor into their system. But because they will no longer have to endure the verbal abuse of temmates and opponents.
Because it is.
Same goes for Valorant, I hear.
With hardware acceleration.
Computing power isn’t just a general quantity. Networking devices have dedicated chips in them to perform various parts of processes. (Encryption, decryption, encoding, decoding, compression, decompression, etc.)
That’s hardware acceleration. There are chips that are super efficient and powerful but they can only do that one thing.
That’s fine if you know exactly what the device is going to be for, so you can put in the exact chips it needs to do only what it needs to do.
I WENT OUTSIDE TODAY AND THERE WERE ALL THESE PEOPLE WEARING JEANS
It sure would be a shame… If he caught measles.
So you can use a more demanding form on anti-aliasing, that doesn’t suck ass?
Hey now! You gotta at least set your timezone and keyboard layout, too.
Now this is quality content.
Not quite.
It would be like carbon credits, if he stopped one hundred rapes, so he could then do 100 rapes.
There’s a word for that, too.
Corruption.