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Sometimes i get the feeling some are contrarian only for the sake of it. Advocating using windoze without av is like advocating not using condoms because it doesn't feel good.
Windows with its built-in Windows Defender and your Common Sense 2019 Computer Professional Edition is going to be enough nowadays.
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It turns out that people's irregular sleep patterns are in fact not quite as irregular when you actually measure them. On the other hand, I believe HN posting history just says "X days ago" for posts older than a day, so you can't get fine grained schedules from that (I might have graphed yours, otherwise, just to see).
Right, you'd need to scrape HN real-time to get a detailed posting history. About sleep schedule. I really don't have one. I work and sleep when I feel like it. And I nap. And I have modafinil and zolpidem available. And coffee. If you charted my waking and sleeping times long-term, you'd find pretty much a random walk. I can be up as much as 30-40 hours, or as little as ~1 hour. And I can be sleeping for anywhere fr…
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Are you sure they don't leak any information sufficient to identify you? Let's play this through; 33 bits of information leak your identity (assuming 8 billion humans) If you set your timezone; that's already leaking 5 bits of information (37 timezones), it lets an observer narrow down your location. The times the VM is active can confirm this (by observing when the VM is more active vs not, your sleep pattern can be…
I'm not sure about timezones but there live about 6 times as many people on the northern hemisphere than the southern, so that's not one bit of information. I know (and have known, unfortunately) multiple people over 60 that use Tor. Aha but such people are even rarer and therefore must be even easier to identify ... or are they? :) In fact I know a handful of kids younger than 14 who have on occasion used Tor as wel…
Same for over 60yo.
There is plenty of other ways to wittle away at the bits. I think you're overconfident.
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is this different than just allocating swap space on the SSD?
Very different. The RAPID mode is basically a RAM disk under the hood -- it does its best to cache often-accessed files and temporarily prioritise loading big files on demand (which is the use-case of games, they often have huge files with textures and sound). Gotta say, it works amazingly well. I am getting almost PCI/NVMe speeds on my SATA III SSD.
Sorry if this is obvious but does that mean we will have a better experience with a total of 32GB RAM than say 8GB? I have not worked with RAM disk before...