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Prepaid debit cards found in stores (used for gifts) have no requirement for information? You just hand over cash and use the card like normal without a data trail?

That is an anonymous purchasing method.

Prepaid debit cards are a decent replacement. Plus those are useful for other platforms like GOG.

Then in that case something like a prepaid debit card (which are available in the same stores) would work just fine.

We’ll keep going - it’s what we do as a hobby and for fun after all :)

Might be a hot take, but vodka is one of the more desperate choices when looking to get drunk on your own time (at least in terms of taste). Rubbing alcohol for wounds is also far cheaper.

100%. The optics definitely aren’t good though - those kinds of tents tend to spring to mind things like FEMA deployments or temporary accommodations for the military.

Technically any x86 PC with the ability to have two separate Ethernet ports would work, but unless you plan on grabbing a NetPC from the 2000s/2010s (which will have dogshit processors and probably no expansion slots for the second Ethernet port), you might be out of luck.

Although if there is an ARM based version of the software (or if you could run it through a compatibility layer like FEX somehow), there’s tons of low power devices that could be repurposed.

Image projection where the brain combines two separate images into one cohesive picture by filling in the gaps is absolutely 3D video’s territory, and expansion on that concept was at the very least utilized in the development of VR headsets.

Now, they aren’t one to one, of course, but lessons learned from 3D video were certainly used in modern VR development (and perhaps adjacent to 3D video’s at the time).

3D video did serve as a legitimate stepping stone for things like Virtual Reality headsets and heads up displays for vehicles, so I don’t think it was a total waste.

The rest of the buzzwords are relatively obscure in the grand scheme of progress though (unless by The Cloud you mean VPS services/storage solutions, which are almost ubiquitous)

I’m definitely not against charging as a concept - it’s just in my current circumstances it’s not viable. Without doxxing myself, the current college I am in does not have charging at any of their parking garages or at the dorms.

Wendover covered the issue in this video he made 5 years ago (so maybe it got solved), but you could not drive from Denver, CO to Dallas, TX from either direction. The maximum range of cars on the market combined with the lack of changing stations along the way meant it was impossible without getting stranded in the middle.

Hopefully it improves as time goes on - from what I can gather EVs in the US mainly make sense if you’re a homeowner or live in an apartment that has a charging station on site.

(I wouldn’t be able to own one and reliably maintain charge right now as a college student, for example)

Don’t forget the infrastructure! The average American is within 5 minutes of a gas station, but charging stations are very few and far between (you can’t even cross certain states with one charge because of the gap).

Free accounts get removed after an inactivity period, but paid accounts remain (Relevant FAQ). You can also check on other providers’ policies like Proton to see how they handle things if you’d prefer them instead.

In my experience I haven’t had any issues even after changing payment methods.

(Also, as for hosting stuff, MEGA is encrypted and gives you 20GB off the bat without a google account requirement)

I get what you’re saying, but paying 8 USD annually for a Tuta mail account doesn’t seem unreasonable in my eyes considering that’s just the costs of services rendered (no bullshit, but not free).

There’s a lot of great, free software that allows you to have a functional life on the internet without any of those issues, but if you’re logging in to a mail server maintained by anyone, you pay with your money or your data.

I have two things I pay annually (and nothing else): My email provider, and for my domain registrar for my self hosting needs. Less than 20 USD a year combined.

Edit: three, forgot to include mullvad. Still under 20 USD tho total.

Here’s the direct home link, although it’s built into the list on my Waterfox and IronWolf installs.

Then self host your own email. If you are not the customer, you are the product, and that applies to digital infrastructure. No credible VPS or domain registrar will let you have amazing service for free without hidden costs either.

It’s built in the filters list, under Annoyances>Huge AI Blocklist. There’s two different ones (the larger “nuclear variant” might slow down search a bit).

Combo it with Ublock Origin and use their AI site blocklist.

Haven’t had any malfunctions on the pixel 9 at all, but I immediately installed grapheneOS and put it in a case. Maybe because I didn’t grab it at launch I dodged a bullet? Odd.