it’s still ‘run algo on a digitalocean instance or something’ but that’s prohibitively nerd shit for most people
yeah to be clear I wouldn’t use one for regular browsing unless it’s at the level of running algo on your own, but if you need something to specifically reveal all of your piracy to some shady affiliate who doesn’t care rather than your ISP, there’s a reason torrent clients let you configure their own proxy settings
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If cops are personally going out of there way to look into my internet traffic specifically or warner bros is so sick of my torrenting they’ve hired a crew of black hat hackers to get the dirt on me I feel like I’ve got a lot bigger problems. right now I’d rather just stop getting my internet shut off for getting caught using public torrent sites, which it seems to work for
I didn’t get the algo thing because I didn’t see the point of a vpn that only you use. it sounded to me like wearing a disguise in your own house that only you live in
it’s the same principle as using nordvpn just for torrenting; 99.99% of internet surveillance infrastructure is automatic no-effort traps. if you actually made that minimum effort someone would have to go looking for something incriminating, and no one ever does
I’m pretty sure I have like six simultaneous connections allowed with my nordvpn sub and I only ever use maybe two of them so if anyone does want the login hmu
also mandatory if for whatever reason you need to use public wifi at all
yeah and tunnelbear is good for minimal-effort, reasonably trustworthy skirting of geoblocks
Nah, what’s mandatory on public wifi is not typing passwords on a non-HTTPS site. Fortunately, HTTPS prevalence has skyrocketed recently so it’s basically a nonissue in 2019.
In theory, VPNs are another man-in-the-middle HTTPS should protect you from, but those VPN vendors who ask you to install their own exe file can use that to bypass HTTPS man-in-the-middle protections in a way that hacked public wifi routers can’t.
I can get up to 20M/s torrenting over a VPN pretty reliably, but I have noticed that it further decreases the likelihood of being able to get a decent connection to anything that only has one or two seeds
I’m strongly considering buying an xbone just so for the convenience of backwards compatibility. are there any reasons to get an xbone x if I don’t have a 4k tv? will i regret just getting an s?
I might upgrade to 4k someday but I probably will just use my PC for any games that would benefit from that anyway.
the main differences are:
- Xbone is huge but cheap because of the revisions
- Xbone S is smaller and can HDR and 4k video (including UHD blurays)
- XboneX is dense like a black hole (seriously, go to an MS store and pick one up) and does the games prettier (games done up for X usually either run better or have a higher resolution than PS4 Pro counterparts, emphasis on usually)
Xbone S is the one to get if you want a slightly futureproofed media machine, X if you want in to the ecosystem as pretty as possible and OG if you want in as cheap as possible
with that said, all indications point to Scarlett being the just Xbone New Name Edition if you want to wait it out a year
backwards compatibility on Xbone regular does not promise resolution increases or added garphical fidelity (anti aliasing, better texture filteringe, etc) as a standard feature.
Some games may do some of those things anyway, as a courtesy. But for example, Ninja Gaiden 2 on Xbone regular, is zero frills.
I think Bayonetta on Xbone regular still has the benefit of a perfect framerate in places where 360 would dip.
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yeah it’s mostly for convenience’s sake but I know some games have substantial
upgrades which is nice
I just don’t even know if my old 360 works anymore and I kind of just don’t like the 360 lol
are there any differences between xbone and the 360 in terms of original xbox compatibility?
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If you’re looking to get into it for backwards compatibility even waiting a year until the next Xbox makes the Xbox One X cheaper makes sense to me.
Since Microsoft ports all their first-party stuff to PC now the only interest I have is in emulation and that’s something that will keep getting better; at this point for my needs it seems best to wait until the next Xbox has been out a year or two for something better and cheaper than the Xbox One X (stop making me type this Microsoft).
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I just like. really want emulators that are free of fiddling with settings, I honestly don’t want emulators that “enhance” things via resolution bumps or whatever I just want emulation that is faithful to hardware and there are no post 16 bit emulators like that which is why the xbone is appealing.
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I don’t remember about original xbox games on xbone.
Digital Foundry DF Retro has a video on Ninja Gaiden and I think they may have something in there about that game.
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oh yeah, FizzBuzz is pretty notorious
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I am the one who started @dylan on this path because Japan has arrested and incarcerated a dozen people for torrenting. And for us that would mean prison time and then deportation. The IPs here are friendly with the cops and the cops love arresting folks for copyright infringement.
few things to note:
- OG and 360 backwards compatibility is done on a game by game basis (much like the 360’s BC) but the Xbone arguably has a stronger BC library because MS let owners vote on games to work on
- you can use OG and 360 discs but they still require an install to the Xbone’s hard drive
- a number of games that were added to BC also got reissued digitally (for example, Ninja Gaiden Black, Republic Commando and PD Orta)
- the work they’ve done is leagues better than what the 360 had to offer, especially when they do crazy shit like resolution bumps, pushing more frames on unlocked games or the mindblowing nonsense of making Halo 3 HDR ready by reverse engineering the renderer
- they’re actually done adding new games because they’re concentrating on developing Xbox family BC for Scarlett
I won’t make any claims about OG emulation coming to PC but the 360 BC is possible in part because they baked in some stuff during the Xbone’s SoC design so that may be a bit further out as a commercial venture MS might do (if ever)
ALSO! an Xbone can get past level 2 of Orta. so, yeah.
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I feel like people always talk about fizzbuzz but I have not encountered it in a single tech interview
also fizzbuzz is so easy, I’m an idiot front end dev and I can solve fizzbuzz. who is it weeding out? they just let anyone program a computer these days huh