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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use Mullvad, $5/month prepaid and you can even mail them cash if you have no other way to pay. No subscription or other scammy stuff. Your entire login is a single auto-generated number, and if you use their app (Open source, 3rd party audited) you just punch it in and boom, VPN time.

I think from signup to using the service was under 5 minutes!

For the power users you can log in on their site and generate Wireguard keys, which you can use with Docker to wrap up all your piracy stuff inside a container that can only access the VPN connection for safety and convenience. But you don't have to do that, you can just run the app and put everything through the tunnel when you're downloading.

[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't allow port forwarding

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

True but this was a reply to someone who wanted it easy, they're not running a seedbox they're just looking to leech and maybe seed back a reasonable ratio if the torrent is active. And that's totally achievable without port forwarding.