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Absolutely. Most “travel routers” have openvpn installed on them. I have one router set up with my normal internet, and another with a full time vpn’d connection. The VPN router was like $60.
They’re also great to have when traveling. It connects to whatever random wifi, and all of your devices show up as a single device. You turn off the VPN to connect to your hotel’s capture portal, then turn it back on and all of your devices have secure internet.
Fucking chore simulator. My roommates couldn’t be assed to do their actual chores, but every morning during covid they’d get up and make sure their fucking farms had whatever the shit they needed.
I’m having that problem with slay the spire currently. I’ve spent 50 hours trying to beat it with the witch character, and keep getting fucked by the RNG. FTL I’ve beat with every ship/variation on normal, but it takes a lot of Memorization or looking up events to make sure you’re not screwing yourself. Into the Breach is way less RNG.
Originally, I was too poor to afford software. Then my CD/dvd books were stolen and I couldn’t afford to replace the media I’d been collecting my entire life. I bought an external drive, an s-video to RF modulator, a Bluetooth keyboard and connected my computer to channel 3.
Eventually Pandora and Netflix were released and I stopped pirating. I spent most of a decade buying all of my media. Then I tried to buy a complete set of Good Eats and it wasn’t possible.
There was literally no way to purchase every episode legally. So I took the $500 I was going to spend on that box set and put it towards an ebay’d server and some drives.
By the time the streaming wars started to gain steam, I had everything automated, and was pushing 50TB of storage.
I spent years getting great with powershell so I can now confidently copy code out of chatgpt. Chatgpt’s ability to spit out close to correct code faster than I can type it is amazing, but useless if you don’t understand what the hell it’s trying to do.
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It hadn’t ever occurred to me to look for pirated patterns :D Here are some sites with a ton of free patterns.
https://www.allfreesewing.com/
https://vintagepatterns.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://threadsmonthly.com/free-sewing-patterns/
https://lovesewing.com/free-sewing-patterns-projects/
Z-Library also has a ton of stuff.
I didn’t realize there was a patreon, I made a Ko-fi account just for this.
Man, I didn’t realize there were only 22 people supporting you monthly.
I’m using the gl.Inet 1200 off Amazon.
There is a monthly fee for your VPN account. I use nordvpn, but there are a ton of options depending on how much you want to pay and what you need.