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This seems pretty important to crowdsource and talk about, so I'm gonna go ahead and risk violating the no politics rule from a few days ago, because I don't see a better community to ask this. My defense for it not "being politics" is, I'm asking you to keep it to purchasing decisions and how the details of how the tariffs are likely to work, as opposed to who did what. This thread has the potential to save people lots of money if it gets big!

Tariffs are gonna make things more expensive for Americans; what are you planning on buying now instead of later, or stockpiling a little of?

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is probably a different discussion, but anybody with tips, tricks, and details of where and how to do this safely, this might not be a bad place to show off what you know.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] QualifiedKitten 4 points 1 month ago

Can anyone recommend some stable general purpose instances that federate with dbzer0? I believe lemmy.world defederated, as the link doesn't work for me. I had a kbin account, but that seems to be dead, and I'd like to minimize the number of accounts I have to use to access things.

[–] Serinus 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How much does the setup cost? assuming I'm already self hosting and have some disk space.

VPN and a seed box?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, you definitely need a good VPN service. I use Proton VPN and it works great. I don’t use a seed box or anything like that. I just see stuff right out of my media library that I keep on several external hard drives. So pretty low cost of entry and then you’re not paying any of the subscription costs for streaming or cable or any of that nonsense. Plus there’s movies they’re software there’s music there’s audiobooks there’s e-books. It’s a cornucopia my friend.

[–] QualifiedKitten 1 points 1 month ago

I've been using whatbox as my seed box for nearly 10 years now. I'm on their USD 15/month plan, and they've upgraded my storage & bandwidth twice now in that time without increasing my costs.

[–] SendMePhotos 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Step 1. Get a VPN. Probably a paid one that aligns with the needs of the client. Step 2. Get an app for p2p/torrent downloads to make things fast. Step 3. Configure your app of choice to strictly use the tun0 (VPN) only and nothing else. Just in case you get a lapse. Step 4. Do it like it's 2008 again baby!

[–] TheKracken 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use mullvad. Pay with a fresh crypto wallet. And use Usenet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

most crypto is useless and practically a scam, it's a rabbit hole in itself to find a worthy one. paying for vpn with crypto only helps if you use an untraceable crypto

if I would recommend one, it's Monero, because it's private by default and untracable, but nobody should believe me without doing their own research. I mean it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"Crypto" is such a vague term it's almost comical to imply it's private. Sure there are ways to use crypto privately, but it takes a lot of steps.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago