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Benefits of Using a VPN

Pros Network Security Applications and websites can keep track of your activity online. The data can be analyzed and used to serve you with targeted ads. Popup ads can also degrade your browsing experience, something that a VPN can often mitigate. In essence, if you use a VPN, it can stop people, software, and web browsers from gaining access to your connection. This keeps the information you transmit and receive secure and anonymous. Hiding Your Private Information Hackers can use a variety of methods to intercept sensitive information you enter on websites. Using that information, they can try to impersonate you, gaining access to bank accounts, credit card information, and more.  If someone knows what sites you commonly visit, they can use that information together with other available public data about you to target you via email phishing scams. They can present you with links to website that seems legitimate, from services that you regularly consume and therefore are more likel

Mechanical Keyboards - Once You Go Mechanical, You'll Never Go Back

If you are sitting in front of the computer for over 6 hrs. a day, 5 days a week, then you need a good typing experience.  The experience of typing on a mechanical keyboard is like none other. From the distinct sound, to the feedback that you receive from the input, to the indent on the keys so that you know your finger landed on the center of the key and not the edge, the travel of the keys on each stroke, the resistance, etc. It is a completely different experience and in my opinion the best experience that you can get. Then again as a child I had an actual typewriter to play with, and maybe I am just nostalgic. Before we get into the keyboards I like, let's talk about the switches.  Yes, all switches are not created equal, and whether you are using a keyboard mainly for typing or something more specialized like gaming, you might want to choose a keyboard with a specific type of switch. Linear Linear switches are the simplest ones. They feel the same from the moment you start pre