LMAO, the only way you’re getting my OpenWRT router running FOSS U-Boot is by prying it from my cold, dead hands.

Best night ever damnit

Jellyfin + Wireguard VPN server says hello

Indeed

Cloudflare’s free CDN offering is a MiTM (you use their certificates ONLY to be able to go through their network). Adding to this, they control a lot of Internet infrastructure (comparable to Microsoft and Google). I hate all of these companies and specifically use Quad9 till I get my own DNS running. It probably doesn’t matter to the end-user but I’m happy to see a technical crowd who maintains my ideals on big tech on Lemmy

Contributing directly to Firefox and reducing the dependence on Google should be three best bet

I’m assuming you don’t own a smartphone, because many of those materials are extracted by exploiting the local populace in Africa

Has worked mostly fine for me, YMMV

Your situation is really unique. Yeah, you’re probably better off with a VPN and torrenting directly. Which VPN do you have in mind?

I don’t see much of a “fuck corporate greed” around me. And there are some things are much better overseas, like cheap IOT gizmos. Purchasing a cheap relay is much easier from the bigger brands on Aliexpress than from a local manufacturer

And that is exactly the reason to use a seedbox. You can leave it in the cloud to seed at gigabit speeds whilst you can download at your leisure and not worry about tormenting at all on your computer. Also it’s less expensive than Mullvad but you likely can’t pay with XMR/cash if that’s a deal breaker

I see. Well, my point still stands; we’re choosing amongst shit anyway

That’s not been my experience, but YMMV

Jerboa here but same

Bustybats

And where am I getting such cheap clothes if I don’t have a thrift store near me? I’d happily take them for free.

And clothes are just one part of it, which I don’t really purchase that often (I mentioned them because I bought a few boxers to wear around the house but that’s it)

Why not a seedbox?

UART to USB adapter, use a terminal multiplexer on your laptop

Depends on what you buy. You shouldn’t be buying PSUs or TVs or something of the sort from there, but try finding cheap clothes, accessories, electronics like that on Amazon

After coming back from a break, I realised I might have leaned too hard into “protecting Chinese companies”. I will say this right now for everyone reading: I have no love for the nationality of said companies. I don’t care if Aliexpress or a clone of theirs was Chinese, Korean, Brazilian, Swiss, Russian, Iranian, Australian or Japanese (incidentally I spend time on buyee.jp because the cheap deals on CDs sometimes). What I care about is providing competition to the bigger mammoths here. If I find a USB adapter for a quarter of the price with free shipping and refunds from a Chinese shop with a decent reputation (Aliexpress, Banggood, TaoBao and now TEMU), I’ll take it. I hope this forces big American retailers to maybe give better, fairer prices to their customers.

I’m not quite convinced that Amazon is no longer the giant with worms as we knew it. Can you explain?