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.

Two reasons. Firstly because it’s illegal to have the same distro on two different machines, and secondly because I’ve been meaning to switch back to OpenSUSE for a while (but I ain’t gonna be gaming on OpenSUSE).

IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I’m thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora (and switching my Fedora Laptop to OpenSUSE maybe).

I don’t get it. Why is everyone donating to Omarchy. What are they hoping to get from that?

Mullvad had some anti-censorship option last I checked. Don’t remember what exactly it does, but it had some sort of option.

Mullvad VPN let’s you buy 10 years in advance IIRC. So if the government bans VPN’s (but Sweden doesn’t) you might still be able to use them for a decade.

It’s frustrating that in 2026, Debian doesn’t have a firewall installed by default.

Chromebooks are what everyone’s using in school. Windows is in a state, and if businesses are going to replace it they sure as hell aren’t going to use Linux (too informal) or MacOS (too locked down).

For individual users, something like 90% of internet browsing is on mobile devices so Android and iOS have already won over Windows bigtime.

I don’t really care about timed exclusivity, especially when it’s just downloading a different launcher. Permanent exclusivity, or worse eventual unavailability I do care about though.

I’m really glad for all Valve has done for Linux, but Microsoft is not the monopoly it once was. Chromebooks are the new frontier and Epic is the one taking on the Play Store monopoly.

Add in GOG to the mix with their anti-DRM advocacy and I’m left with a tough choice for who I would rather my 30% store tax to go to.

In my case I’m just accepting the slim pickings. Even with the pickings being so slim, I could still theoretically never run out of things to read.

That said the search functionality is abysmal and that’s what’s really giving me pause.

It’s really frustrating that this whole situation is caused by people not knowing how to enable parental controls.

I’ll never switch to Chromium no matter what happens, not on an ideological basis, but because Firefox is the only browser that allows me to create duplicate bookmarks without manually copying and pasting it.