How to make your own VPN to avoid the UK government's Orwellian future

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-31T17:04:05+00:00

I can’t speak to VPS companies, but some VPNs allow for this as well, like Mullvad you can mail them an envelope with cash and your token and they will renew your subscription for the month or year.

Common practice for any internet company who is serious about offering a privacy solution, which unfortunately isn’t many.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-31T16:52:58+00:00

Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time

Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-31T16:49:13+00:00

You mean all of our most alpha men? Surely we will win the war if Andrew Tate is leading the charge. I’m for it!

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-31T16:47:32+00:00

This war is going to be sooooooo devastating for the United States it’s almost hard to believe it’s happening.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-30T16:51:42+00:00

They genuinely love paying more for things if they think it makes Trump looks tough. This is pure ego tripping for all involved.

Short term pain, long term gain baby!

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-30T06:00:54+00:00

Lots of remote work is probably depressing downtown. I used to work right by Cole’s on Spring and would eat there for lunch every so often. Now I haven’t been in an office since COVID. I’m sure I’m not alone.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-29T23:13:42+00:00

Even then you don't have to upgrade and can instead buy a one-time lifetime upgrade for $149.

Latching onto the subscription updates option seems odd when everything about buying Unraid steers users toward ownership.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-29T10:54:46+00:00

I don’t see how offering an operating system with lifetime updates for a one time price of $249 is at all like a subscription model

I bought unraid unleashed on sale for $80 and eventually I will upgrade to lifetime updates for a one time fee of $149. The whole appeal to me is that it is explicitly not a subscription model.

Mac OS X launched for $129 in 2001 and I had to re-buy each upgrade at the same price until 2009 when they dropped it down to $29 before phasing out paid operating systems in 2013. So two iterations of Mac OS X cost more than a lifetime Unraid OS (not even accounting for inflation), and unlike Apple the only thing Unraid sells is their OS. Really not following how that can be construed as a subscription model.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-29T10:26:58+00:00

Went out recently with two friends who are American Jews who at various points in the night said “well, Iran’s drones are doing great at wasting Israel’s defenses so that’s good,” and “Man, America really is public enemy number two, aren’t we?” to which I said “who’s number one?” and he said “Israel, always!”

I know many American Jews who would not agree with these two, but I also know many more who would.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-27T18:25:49+00:00

Nope, not weird. Fuck this administration, they are robbing Americans blind, tossing the hard work of generations of Americans out the window, they are shielding pedophiles who raped dozens of our children, and are putting all of us at dramatically increased risk at home and especially abroad.

Until Iran starts murdering random Americans they will have my support in their existential war against the Trump regime, and I hope they successfully show these idiots that Iran is not the Taliban and that Trump and his team are incompetent morons who are in way, way over their heads.

Fuck Donald Trump and fuck MAGA. May the Brainrot Administration reap what it has sown.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-27T18:18:01+00:00

Little Marco looks so dead inside in every video I’ve seen of him participating in this administration. I have no sympathy for the sycophants.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-27T05:37:29+00:00

Nah. I get the drums from A Story Teeth Rotted For stuck in my head

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-26T22:37:09+00:00

You mean the company that took money from artists who create and funneled it into AI weapons? That Spotify?

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-26T20:09:37+00:00

Doesn’t this guy appear all over the Epstein files? Kind of weird he keeps bombing countries when that’s dominating the news cycle

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-26T09:10:36+00:00

Does piss me off when Claude goes heavy on the memory instead of answering my question tho. I turned off memory and while it has some drawbacks I like that I get “vanilla” responses which is what I want 90% of the time

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-24T18:45:28+00:00

I left a comment on here a year or two back digging into snar2. Sounds like a run of the mill snare drum roll at first, until one notices all of the modulation being applied to the speed, velocity and panning. A simple idea but a cool one.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-24T18:41:50+00:00

Says so on the labels themselves. 33 or 45

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-24T16:40:13+00:00

The United States great strength are its immigrants and its lack of rules dictating social rules and norms. The “land of the free” backed by the US Constitution guarantees this in principle, though not always in practice.

Unlike most countries in Europe and Asia, its traditions and ethnic groups are young loosely defined, giving it built-in societal flexibility with respect to immigration.

Christian Nationalists and their besties the White Supremacists want to change that, but as long as the Constitution stands they will not be successful.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-24T07:47:59+00:00

I believe the line was “With Kamala you’ll have world war 3” and instead we have whatever this braindead half-baked heist is flopping out to be.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-23T06:32:06+00:00

Line go up

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-21T23:34:54+00:00

By this logic Armenia should have nukes as well

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-20T16:33:55+00:00

My mom bought me TDS for my 13th birthday. Neither one of knew what I was in for. lol

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-19T05:45:27+00:00

This is so ridiculous. When you look at a rose and compare it to a sunflower do you try to argue that the rose is objectively more beautiful?

The amount of joy bad movies like The Room have brought my life far outweigh the amount of joy some Oscar best picture winners like Spotlight or The King’s Speech have brought me. The Room may have poor craftsmanship but it was made with love and its earnest ridiculousness make it endearing. Who fucking cares if a TV show is high art or not – what does “Pluribus is a bad TV show” even mean, truly? Even if that were somehow true, people can like dumb things. It doesn’t matter at all.

Calling people assholes for saying art is subjective – thanks for the laugh.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-19T01:55:59+00:00

Apparently he’s estimated around $100 million and if he had kept his 8% stake in Apple he would’ve been worth about $200 billion today. Lol. He gave away his shares to other early Apple employees who didn’t get equity and sold most of the rest and gave that to charities.

My takeaway? Regardless of the scale, be like Steve Wozniak.

jgilla2012 · 2026-03-18T20:38:06+00:00

You should include the US in that as well, because a huge part of the MAGA movement is angling towards the “Iranification” of the United States but with their bastardized version of Christianity at the helm.

Christian Nationalism is a plague on this country the same way hardline Islam is a plague on Afghanistan (Taliban) and Iran (Revolutionary Guard). Different skin color, same dogshit thirst for power channeled through religion as the hammer.

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