Yes. Writting down a complex password helps against most attacks, except one where the bad guy has physical access to your note. Based on the normal users use case that is probably a very good trade off. Most hacks are done over the internet without access to your note.

Ideally everyone should use a password manager, but that is highly unlikely any time soon.

I know this is a meme, but security is not binary. It is not you either have 100% or 0%, it is always a sliding scale, and usually on the opposite side is convenience.

Encrypting your drive protects against someone stealing your computer or breaning into youe house while the computer is off/locked.

People like to trash people that write down their passwords on a post-it note and keep next to their computer. It is not ideal, but having a somewhat complex password written down protects a lot more against attacks over the internet than having “password”. However, if others have physical access to the note then it is obviously very bad. Like for example in an office.

In their defense a very tiny percentage of users even open options and of those an even smaller actually change stuff.

Maybe slighlty different for Firefox as probably more power user use it than other random programs. But basically if something is not enabled by default, it doesn’t exist.

Great, but they should donate some of the saved money to open source projects they are using to make sure they stay updated.

It hasn’t been viable to mine Bitcoin on GPU for about a decade, it is all CPU. I mean you can still obviously do it, but it isn’t worth it. You would get better results mining something else and swapping.

Different coins have different best suited hardware. Some by design, some by lack of design.

IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.

My guess: it is a low hanging fruit and then they can say “Look! We blocked X million bots! So you can trust the users that are left… please don’t look into it any more”

There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.

It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn’t approved.

…and the CEO “retires” with full bonuses

Ah, but corporate profit margins are much more important than people

Big doubt on >50%, probably more like 0.5%

Don’t forget brib…sorry, I mean lobbying from rich people and corporations owning a lot of properties.

Well, maybe. But if it goes tjrough without some “bugs” or simply good features missing, we will see how good the e2e really is

End to end is just a buzzword when you control both ends.

Yes, but 1000ms latency is super bad. No service has anything even close to that high.

It is rejected, for now. But that could change, only really takes one massive game to do it to open the floodgates.

U don’t think it will happen, but what if GTA6 did it? They would be big enough to be able to pull it off, and most of their revenue will probably come from online anyway, so adding a base game subscription could make sense for them.

Very much depends on the game though. A bit of lag in strategy/city builder/etc is not really an issue. But in a competive shooter it is a huge deal.

Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!

Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!

I liked the DLCs as well. I know why they don’t do them anymore, as online is a money printing machine. But I really liked them and wished they had done more.

The world exists, so just add a story with a bunch of missions => nice DLC. But since they make such an obscene amount of money from online it makes no sense for them to do any more.