Funny but I dunno if I buy it tbh, using an EpiPen alone is a medical emergency requiring medical attention. It’s not something you can just shake off.

Sure, I was trying to correct the statement that it’s not possible at all though.

You can still torrent with Mullvad, it’s just gonna be slower because you have less peers. But it’s still 100% doable. They don’t block torrenting entirely…

This article isn’t about that, so clearly you did not read the article.

Do you choose to use roads? Do you choose to shower? Do you choose to use power? Do you choose to use sewer? Do you choose to use public parks? Do you choose to use libraries? Do you choose to use anything subsidized by the government?

Then you’re choosing to pay for it. Million dollar infrastructure projects cannot be funded without taxes. It’s better if the load is balanced. This is why billionaires should be footing the majority of the bill, so you don’t have to cover their share. You should reframe your question to: why do billionaires steal money from us by not paying their fair share?

I remember about a year ago, people, even here on Lemmy, were defending Starlink (mostly related to its effect on ground based astronomy) and arguing that the pros of the service clearly outweighed the cons. Is that still something that people believe?

We should have been funneling that money into expanding municipal fiber instead. It would have cost less, had less emissions, much less latency and much more bandwidth. If we genuinely need satellite coverage for remote areas, why are we handing billions to private companies instead of building public satellite networks? Why are we trying to escape the problems of shitty private telecom by turning to shitty private telecom?

Of course, we don’t live in a perfect world where our government is competent enough to not fall to corruption, and I don’t deny that Starlink has helped some people get connected that otherwise would never have fiber access due to remoteness or geography. But I guess my point is that many more people in general would have much more reliable internet access if it weren’t for the government funneling money to private companies for inferior service (such as Comcast and Starlink).

I’m lucky in the sense that it didn’t prevent my county from continuing expansion, and my neighborhood now has cheap & reliable public fiber available. But many weren’t so lucky, and instead have their taxes being sent to Musk for a slow service that they can’t afford anyway.

Oh my god, not you again. Give the slop a rest. Your last (now-deleted) post said you had “no marketing”, but here you are again.

It’s a structured low tech kit solution that uses Legos and hammers to hit them when the data tells it to with no guidance or tutorials which makes you money when you (a solo builder) are going broke.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

It’s clear that we don’t get guidance - you don’t even seem to know what your “platform” does.

“no marketing”, meanwhile you’ve created an account with your platform’s name? what would you call what you’re doing right now then? “Sharing” doesn’t count unless it’s open source and free, btw. So, it’s not that.

Try again, not using the word “kits”. Why would a “solo builder” need this (which you haven’t been able to coherently explain yet) when they could use real software to do so?

Another vote for Mullvad.

In this vein, Google LOVES to hardcode their DNS into their apps. So, like you said, even if you use a different DNS provider, your phone will still be hitting Google servers.

Graphene is the way.

Sorry, I didn’t mean package pickup. I meant like ordering from the supermarket, for curbside pickup, for instance.

I don’t necessarily do it for all online purchases, but I definitely do it when I can pick it up myself.

I also work in tech, and was what you’d call a low need customer.

The Xfinity service in my entire neighborhood would go down almost daily, and sometimes more than twice a day. On top of that, it would sometimes cut out just long enough to disconnect my remote shells, causing me to have to reauthenticate. It was horrible, my new (community) fiber is a huge improvement. I think it’s gone down once since having it installed almost two years ago.

It’s much easier for me to manage if it’s a file issue though. It’s much more difficult to manage an actual network 3000 miles away, especially if something actually goes wrong. Basically, “it won’t play” can be checked locally. If it doesn’t play locally, I’m happy to fix it. But I’m not about to troubleshoot her network issues for her.

Saying I’m “supporting a chunk of her network” is like saying Netflix supports a chunk of their users’ networks. It’s just not true.

Good question, I’m also in tech. She does drive and of course opens bank accounts, but it’s like it all goes out the window when she needs to do anything remotely technical. I would say that most of the users I’ve encountered are not that bad, but she is unique in that way.

You replied to someone and said “my wife has no problem using tailscale”. Is your wife not another person? Sure, same household, but if you’re not running a pirate TV service, why does she need tailscale, and how is that different than sharing with my MIL?

Also, why do you keep using the terminology of “pirate tv service”? Why is it suddenly not a home media server if I want my mother in law to be able to use it? I don’t share with people outside of my family.

You seem to think that because you’re using Jellyfin, it’s automatically not piracy. But you certainly can do piracy with it, it has tools purpose built for it like Jellyseerr. So how is that not a “pirate tv service”?

Do you not know that you can also upload your own media rips to Plex? Is that still a “pirate tv service”? At what point do you assign the (fairly negative, at least legally) connotation of piracy to a service someone is hosting out of their homelab?

Too hard, she can’t even open a PDF file on her own.