I know VPNs aren’t the best for privacy, but I’m curious, would a VPN be able to only see a domain and subdomain if the website is https? or can they see more somehow?
URL path (resource) is end-to-end (between your browser and end website) encrypted in an HTTPS request, along with the body, any query parmeters in the URL and POST params. So only the domain (or more specifically the IP) is transparent to your VPN provider.
As another user mentioned, the domain could get leaked to your ISP (besides the VPN provider) via DNS requests (depending of your PCs DNS cache lifetime and router cache), unless you use your own DNS provider over HTTPS. But your requests would still include an IP, which could be reversed to a domain via a trivial whois / lookup in a list.
But the thing you are worried about, the path in the URL (folders as you call it, but nowdays URL rewrite means that most probably there isn’t a direct association between URI and web server’s disk structure) should be encrypted and only the website you are visiting can decrypt it (via its private key of the SSL certificate).
Excuse my ignorance, I don’t know much about 3D printer material types / filament resistance, but from a few 3D printed cases for small devices I had, isn’t the plastic brittle? Or the joints of layers. Especially for a long cylinder shape where force is going to be applied to. I dropped 2 cases on the floor and they broke in multiple pieces where 2 layers of filament joined. But granted, their thickness was 2-3 millimeters.
Exactly. Credit scores are a scam and an incentive into having a credit card and overdrafting.
Instead, there are laws that restrict you from buying or mortgaging at a monthly cost higher than x% of your monthly income
It’s called “level of indebtedness” or “financial burden” and it’s typically 40% of net monthly income. So you cannot get a loan that would put your total monthly installments (counting all of your credits) above 40% of your income.
And I would add that if you are behind with your installments, creditors can only hunt you down for 50% of your income (subtracting any other credits you may have / owe), so you don’t typically go bankrupt because of loans. Of course, for a mortgage, you do lose the house, but I’m talking about general loans so-called “for personal use”.
I have no issue with overdraft fees, which are normal (for credit accounts), but my problem is that to my understanding most cards in the US are credit cards (so overdraft-capable) by default. Rest of the world takes advantage of the more sane debit card.
I guess it does work differently, and it depends on the bank. I’m in Europe. When I make a payment, let’s say Saturday, that will actually be processed on Monday, the sum doesn’t show up in my account anymore and I see it as a pending transaction. So I can’t spend more than I have on a debit account.
The only time I would owe the bank are card reissue fees every few years, which could take the balance into the negative. But if you have multiple accounts with the same bank (including savings accounts) the fee is automatically withdrawn from other accounts. Also, no fees for the negative balance if it’s a debit card. You can have it pending for months without issue.
I actually take advantage of not being able to overdraft by having a separate account and attached card that I only use for online payments. It normally stays on 0, and I only move money there before making an online purchase. If my card details are leaked / stolen, transactions would get refused (no money in the account), I would just close the card and request another one.
PS Given the downvotes, I understand I might have a wrong understanding and might confuse banking terms a bit, but I don’t live in the US and I certainly wasn’t taking the side of banks regarding the overdraft fees.
That was my point, yes. Also, see my other comment, I live in Europe where credit lines (we do have the so-called “shopping” cards offering fixed installments for purchases but also overdraft at an ATM) aren’t the norm here and people opening up such an account take it more seriously and pay attention not to overdraft. “Building your credit score” isn’t a thing here. Confusing terms and scum agents promoting those cards do trick people into overdrafting and paying huge monthly interests (30% / year) instead of fixed installments, though.
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To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”
I’m sorry, but what is the difference? If you know the subject is “thinking” of a phrase, and the algorithm translates the EEG during that time into words, isn’t it mind reading?
From my experience, SSDs are more prone to failure and have limited writes. They are ment for running the OS, databases for fast access, and games / apps. They are not ment for long time storage and frequent overwrites, like movies, which usually means download, delete and repeat which wears the memory quickly. One uses electric current to short memory cells and switch them from 0 to 1 and viceversa, the other uses a magnetic layer which supports a lot more overwrites on the same bit.
If keeping important data on them, I would use them only in a redundant RAID configuration and/or with frequent backups so I wouldn’t cry if one of them fails. And when they fail, there are no recovery options as with HDDs (even if very expensive, at least you have a chance).
I also wouldn’t touch used server SSDs, their lifetime is already shortened from the start. I had 3 Intel, enterprise-grade SSD changes in our company servers, each after about 3 years - they just wear out. For consumer / home SSDs the typical lifetime is 5 years, but that takes into account minor / “normal” usage, ie. if used as OS disks. And maybe power users could extend that with moving the swap/pagefile and temporary files (ie browser cache, logs, etc) on a spinning disk, but it defeats the purpose of having an SSD for speed in the first place.
If you have media (like movies) in mind, you’ll find sooner than later that you’ll need more space, and with HDDs the price per GB is lower than SSDs.
If you have no issue with 1. noise, 2. speed (any HDD is fast enough for movie playback and are decent for download), 3. concurrent access, or 4. physical shocks from transport, go with HDDs, even used ones.
I’m curious on where did you find this. Maybe they have lower DOA rates and decreased chances to fail in the first year, but SSDs have a limited usage lifetime / limited writes, so even if they don’t fail quickly, they wear out over time and at first they have degraded performance, but finally succumb in 5 years or less, even when lightly used (as in as OS drives).
To avoid DOA / first year issues with HDDs, just have the patience to fully scan them before using with a good disk testing app.
I use Hard Disk Sentinel, it’s not free, but it also monitors drives in Windows so you have an early warning at the first sign of issues. Also logs historic data (writes, temperature, etc) and displays them as graphs.
True, but it depends from person to person and it counts if you have a small or big drive, how often you watch and rotate your media, how large the media is. If you only have a 1TB SSD, and often download and watch blue-ray quality, 20 movies will fill it. It won’t be long until the same blocks get erased, no matter how much the SSDs firmware tries to spread the usage and avoid reusing the same blocks.
Anyway, my point is, aside from noise and lower power consumption advantages, I wouldn’t use SSDs for a NAS, I regard them as consumables. Speed isn’t really an issue in HDDs.
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