https://vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com/ has a $1/month sub and you can pair it with their https://hydraveil.net/ tool for compartmentalization. Some of their servers are run by known members of the monero community like trusted vendors or market admins. You can also get shared/resold accounts for big vpn companies on https://xmrbazaar.com/ (for example 2 years of PIA for $15 from a trusted vendor https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/xEM5/) or rent a DMCA ignored VPS with monero and set up your own VPN for $7-12/year, you won’t exactly hide in the crowd that way but it’s better than nothing and should thwart ISP related annoyances.

I’m not trying to give unsolicited advice but you can get a VPN subscription for 1$/month and put it on your router to get your whole house covered. Seems like a small price to pay for extra privacy and less ISP related headaches. ProtonVPN offers an unlimited bandwidth free tier too.

Replacing broken displays will cost them less than paying someone to swap labels by hand, and if it does become even mildly annoying to them you will be caught and have the book thrown at you. If you are gonna break the law you might as well do something more productive than generating tax write offs.

Risk criminal charges to cause $24 in damages, that will surely crumple the multi bilion dolar corporation.

What do you need all that ram for?

Monero - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, digital cash system.

Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack designed to build secure, decentralized, and resilient local or wide-area networks using readily available hardware. It operates independently of traditional internet protocols (like IP), enabling communication under adverse conditions such as high latency and extremely low bandwidth with:

• Forced e2e encryption and forward secrecy
• Initiator anonymity
• Multi-hop and self-configuring routing
• Heterogenous network support
• Decentralized addressing

Basically internet 2.0

Arweave - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, permanent data storage/server.

https://youtu.be/OshNahVo9-c

None except palantir (that’s not strictly just an AI company).

At this point yall use fascist the same way 4chan uses fag.

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

She survived and settled for $450k.

https://ihostart.com/ one of the cheapest I know.

https://ardrive.io/ for a permanent, encrypted, decentralized, blockchain based solution.

A raspberry pi hidden in a wall behind a power socket or in some always plugged in appliance like a fridge or tv at some place with wifi or a phone with a data plan connected to a portable solar charger set up on some roof or tree.

DRM, digital locks, hardware locking fuses etc. should be illegal. If I buy a car I can change the lights, swap out the engine, do whatever I want with it, it’s mine, I own it. Why shouldn’t I be able to do the same with my phone or game? Why should some company have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my own property that I paid for? That’s not DRM (digital rights management) because they have no right to manage my property, it’s OSM (ownership subversion mechanism) and that’s what we should call all that anti consumer bullshit.

It’s not just a british thing. I find that reddit blocks VPNs but not tor exit nodes, they even have a .onion website.

https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/

I’ve set up a private redlib instance that routes all traffic through tor and I have a browser extension that redirects all reddit links to my server. If you have a vps/home server this is a very seamless setup or you can use one of many public redlib instances or browse through tor directly.

I have a radxa zero 3w seed box that I also stream movies from by mounting it as a network drive. It’s running dietpi and all traffic goes through a wireguard VPN, it’s connected to a sata SSD via a cheapest USB dongle from aliexpress.

If you want to connect multiple drives a dongle like this one

or multiple cheep sata-usb dongles connected via externally powered usb hub should work but your speeds will be limited by the usb.

I haven’t tested it on an sbc but I use it to connect HDDs to my PC that I power from it’s PSU when I do backups. There are also special raspberry pi HATs that allow you to connect multiple SSDs.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxas-sata-hat-makes-compact-pi-5-nas/

With my setup I get ~12 MiB/s download (probably limited because of the VPN overhead) , ram usage doesn’t go above 512 MB even with dietpi dashboard and some of my scripts running. The biggest issue was heat, I had to buy radiators and a fan to keep the temps in the safe range. Other than that everything works great.

You can check benchmarks on dietpi’s website to see what sbc would work best with your network.

https://dietpi.com/survey/#benchmark

So you don’t believe that people have a right to not be murdered?

Your prices are msrp for unused components.

On my local equivalent of ebay/amazon I can get a used 3080 10 GB for $390, ryzen 9 5900x $265, 32 GB DDR4 3200 mHz $170, new b550 mobo $80, 750w psu 80+ gold $70. $975 total. I didn’t count anything else coz a lot of people already have those things from their old PCs and they’re super cheep. For a full ~$1000 build add a $60 512 GB sata ssd. Cooler will set you back $15, same as a 1080p screen, case and m+k combo and a lot of the time you can get those things for free and they will last you a lifetime.

This is my first ever keyboard that I got for free from an office that was closing down and I use it to this day. Eventually I had to buy a PS/2 to USB dongle but that’s like $5. I have a 2nd spare one in case the 1st one breaks. I plan on using it till I die.

If the place you want to spend at offers gift cards there’s a 99% chance you can buy them with monero. You can also buy prepaid Visa/MasterCard debit cards but they’ll only work at places that don’t require 3D secure. Have a look at https://cakepay.com/

I’m on ryzen 9 5900x, rtx 3080, 32 GB DDR4, with mobo and psu that’s ~€850 today and it will play most modern games on high settings 1080p at +100 fps. Computer hardware these days is a lot more like car hardware than it used to be. Generational improvements aren’t as big and the price for a used 5 year old unit is a ⅓ of a new one. Unless you absolutely need the latest and greatest go with a used last gen.

"If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No."

What do you “no”? It absolutely would be. A samurai wallet could be a physical wallet for cash, some hidden blade device, a toy, a regular non privacy centric crypto wallet. For example lets pretend there is this crypto wallet you haven’t heard of. Would a title like “Developer of Ninja Pocket goes to prison” be more or less informative to you?

"Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No. "

Again, what do you mean “no”? “Developer of crypto wallet imprisoned” tells you nothing about why he was jailed and completely misses the whole point of the story - that he was imprisoned due to the privacy features of the wallet.

"It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”."

Like I said it’s implied. The title doesn’t need to tell you that it has something to do with a crypto wallet because that’s not the important part. The privacy preserving characteristics of it is what matters. His “crime” isn’t making a crypto wallet, it’s making it private.

At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

IDK how you came to that conclusion but ok.