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dont do it been a few people in jail b/c they use SR form there school. the news story about it been post on the forums some where

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I think in general people get hung up on thinking that VPN's are a lot more helpful than they really are.

Yes, the OS should only use up half of your RAM max, 250 mb ought to be enough. And of course the HD space is much more than sufficient. I don't know about the NVIDIA graphics card issues, those are very specific stuff. Perhaps your motherboard has a inbuilt GPU onboard? I mean you'll only need a few MB of graphics card to make it function at all. I suggest, instead of going to the ends of the earth to make your NVIDIA card compatible (if it's a problem of course, which it might not be), that you shell out $5.00 for a different basic graphics hardware widget for your laptop (I've never even seen a laptop graphics card! Not a laptop person).

that hurt my brain

It seems like all of the things people are accusing Lim of are pretty easily excused as well.

1.  "He doesn't own a landrover and his ML expertise is probably pretty much copied off of the clearnet"  Possibly or even probably true but what exactly would be the consequences if that were true?  Pretty much nothing.
2.  "He vouched for and maybe knew vlad"  Again, the first point is true but excusable and the second is as far as I know unprovable.
3.  "He doesn't sell anything illegal"  Well, the profit margins are pretty fucking high on legal drugs etc. so that isn't anything to go on really.
4.  "He spends all of his time on here"  Again true, but what's that worth?

Did I miss anything?  I don't think so.  So what exactly are people accusing him of?  I can't really tell, no one has any evidence for anything they're just pointlessly posting conspiracy theories as far as I can tell.

In the end I agree that no one should trust anyone else on here either way so none of this should change anything.

Pretty much agree with this. I think it is kind of strange that he is suddenly under massive attack by everyone. He went on vacation when vlad scammed people, what exactly does that mean? I mean if that indicates he is a scammer why the fuck would he even go on vacation at the same time as Vlad scammed? People are taking a correlation and immediately jumping to seeing it as causation and I am not seeing any logic leading from one to the other.

I highly doubt he owns or expects to sell an armored vehicle here, could just be putting on a show to try and impress people, can't really think of why LE would do that. He does seem to be on SR an inhuman amount of time for a single person and I find that to be somewhat sketchy but maybe he is multiple people or a tweaker or something. I never particularly trusted him and still do not, but that has nothing to do with the recent events, and I think a lot of people are being pretty illogical in basing their opinions on limetless off of his going on vacation at the same time Vlad scammed everyone.

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Unfortunately the best way to get let off easily is indeed to pretend that you are ultra religious, and I am sure a priest vouching for you would be extremely helpful. Of course this assumes you live in the land of the free with a promise of separation of church and state, where it is illegal to have drugs but believing in the God of your area will get you a reduced sentence.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-January/022913.html read that and pay special attention to anything said by roger dingledine, he's the lead tor developer

also see http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=26419.0

again i recommend using obfsproxy not a vpn, you achieve the same end result but there's no one party that can compromise you

Still the person running the bridge can compromise you, at least as much as the people running the VPN. It is safe enough to enter through a VPN before using Tor, although it is probably more likely that a VPN provider keeps logs (even if they say they do not) than it is for your ISP to keep logs of all their users traffic. If you are mostly interested in hiding that you use Tor, that is what bridges and obfsproxy are for. A VPN will hide that you use Tor in that your ISP will see you connecting to an IP address of the VPN node instead of a Tor node IP address, but it will not hide from DPI that you are using Tor because Tor traffic looks very unique. Using a bridge hides that you are connecting to a known Tor node IP address but also does not disguise your traffic, that is what obfsproxy was made for. So far obfsproxy seems to be doing well enough to prevent the censors in China from fingerprinting Tor traffic, I am not familiar with the state of its implementation but currently it is the only way Chinese people can connect to Tor without the censors detecting it and blocking them.

turn off flash, turn off java, turn on tor, go to google, dont open PDF's and you should be fine right?

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