MedicareForSome [none/use name]

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  • Basically, your VPN just replaces your ISP. So for example, if I want an ISP that's okay with piracy a VPN can be3 a good option.

    Your IP address is not how you are spied on for the most part. It's more browser fingerprinting. So a VPN can offer a false sense of security when really enhancing your privacy is a lot less passive than that. Overall it can help but it's not a magic privacy button.

    Also entities like the NSA with a "god's eye view" can just track you anyways. Even if the VPN service wasn't compromised, they can just watch traffic going in and coming out and correlate it to you. It offers basically no protection from high-resource adversaries.
















  • It depends on what you mean by sustainable, it can mean a lot of different things.

    In terms of CO2 production, plastics really can't be beat at the moment. Their weight relative to other materials makes them cost significantly less CO2 to ship.

    In terms of biodegradability, we have composable plastics like PLA but you're not going to get the properties you want in terms of strength.

    If you make a model kit with biodegradable plastic but you have to buy 5 of them instead of 1 because they keep breaking, using ABS is more sustainable in my opinion.