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A lot of people I know are using free VPNs to circumvent the state censorship. It has nothing to do with privacy, only with the fact that when you search for something, about 20-80% of links end with "connection timed out" (depends on what you're looking for, obviously). Most of those sites don't have any "ungood" information and are basically just collateral damage.

That's the best way to learn — post a stupid thing on the internet and let the internet prove you wrong. Thanks to everyone who replied!

>we saw books and papers on the dash, the dome lights on, you know, deep study

If it's the "too complicated to bother" sort of "impossible" as opposed to "denied by the company security policies", you can always use linuxbrew or nix.

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

https://nixos.org/nix/

It seems to be fast enough for SQL JIT-compiler in PostgreSQL 11+ and shader compilation in the *nix OpenGL stack (mesa), both of which are sort-of-realtime systems.

Clickable link:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks....

Saves one second per person, that's like a whole man-day across all the readers.

> Maybe the project should have implemented more from scratch instead of cobbling together some Frankenstein data structure (and Firefox wouldn't be such a massive memory hog with poor performance)?

Sorry, but what is that supposed to mean? Have you looked at Chromium's (or any other modern browsers') memory usage? Firefox is timid compared to it, and always has been so. Maybe it's not due to the browser engineers' low skill level, but due to the enormous complexity of modern web? It's a separate operating system on top of your operating system.

Is there any way to financially support the project? I have only been able to find a couple of Patreon pages of people working on specific libraries I haven't been using personally.

Honestly, if that's all that took you to give up on programming, it would not have gone on much longer anyway, especially with something like C++.

How is all of this possible when the network is barely able to support half dozen transactions a second? It's not even enough to cover one shopping mall, let alone some "countries" or the whole planet.

Some people just need to find additional validation to prove to themselves they're doing the right thing. Don't worry about it.

I have no idea what they're talking about though. Installing qBittorrent takes about a minute, adding an RSS feed one minute more; that's it. I think I configured my setup about two years ago, the files just magically appear in whatever directory I asked them to.

How much more time does this consume compared to opening the web browser, going to <whatever streaming site>, and so on? I'd say, about 300% less.

Edit: to whoever is reading this, after pressing the downvote/flag button, please do the following: set up a VPN to any third-world country, go to your favorite streaming provider, and have a gander at the breadth and diversity of their catalog.