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I imagine for visa it doesn’t matter if it buys the correct item, all it matters is that it starts making loads of transactions.

Will be interesting when the scammers figure out how to get it to buy something that a human would obviously notice to be a scam.

I think there is no comprehensive guide because people have varying opinions on what’s “best”. IMO the “best” for everyone is the way that they understand how things work and are comfortable to manage it, regardless of how good or bad someone else says that is.

My recommendation is to just accept you will not get it right first time, you’ll eventually face the issues and limitations of whatever way you picked and have to either rebuild or adapt.

Personally, I’d say choose a starting path of do you want to learn about the various technologies and have maximum potential (and, problems to solve) or do you just want to get some of the common apps running and don’t care how as long as they run and be limited by what’s available, but with much fewer issues. Path 1 is following the docker/proxmox path and it may take a lot of reading and watching YouTube tutorials before you get somewhere, path 2 is aiming for something like casaOS or similar and probably watching their getting started will get you results faster but if something breaks or is not available, you may get stuck.

Last, pick 1 thing that’s your goal and work on getting that there. There is no right order, but the more popular something is the more resources there will there be. https://selfh.st/apps/ is a great resource for finding things. Jellyfin is actually pretty easy to start with and gives you some good paths forward around it (e.g. start with you manually getting your media in the right place, then you can work on adding other apps that will do it for you). I’d advise to avoid self hosting email, it’s rather difficult.

Once you grasp how things work, it becomes a shopping mall of just add what you want, it’s just climbing that hill at least once that’s hard if you’re not from a tech background.

It’s all good, we can’t look at imgur anymore and that’s just as important as food.

I don’t disagree that even starlink is overvalued, my point was that it’s the only thing in spacex bringing in profit and why.

FWIW, their v3 satellite model is apparently a 10x bandwidth increase over v2 (although weights about 5x as much). At the moment they are so oversubscribed that they can charge a $1000 surcharge for people to just sign up in some areas, so there’s definitely demand. So given they’re already around 10 mill subscribers there is some growth to be had (although I agree it won’t be 100s of millions, maybe a few 10s - far from the 50+ multiplier on the valuation, even ignoring the other 2 money pits bundled in)

That being said, you’re entirely correct that fixing the on-ground infrastructure is a much better investment if the goal is good internet service and would deliver a better quality service for cheaper, but that is happening extremely slowly in most of the developed countries (e.g. UK has terrible internet infra as well), especially in rural areas. So for the next 10 years starlink doss have a large market because the ground infrastructure sucks, and it’s not “hype” to spend money on it for investors where’s space stuff is.

Their drive through is gonna get busy with all the “ai startup founders” who cant afford their ai anymore in there like “before I place my order, I’m going to read you 31 million lines of code, I need you to change the color of the login button to green”

*Operating expenses before nvidia raises their prices so they can somehow make the line go up enough to justify it’s massive evaluation.

Stsrlink is about the only thing in the company pulling in solid revenue. There’s a good analysis on https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/05/30/what-is-starlinks-financial-performance

But basically it’s a subscription service which they can sell around most of the planet and compete with infrastructure heavy services (as in expensive to replace them). They also have a lot of enterprise customer usecases (like agriculture and construction) as well as cashcow government (army).

Their growth is actually massive compared to last year, and starlink itself is already profitable. Their economy gets better with the investment in the rocket tech. Starship will be able to lift 20x the amount of starlink than falcon 9, apparently also cheaper, while the next gen starlink sats will also be able to serve a lot more customers. That’ll drive their operating cost down, while allowing selling more.

(Just to be clear, spacex as a company is still hot garbage because of the bundling of x and xai and also probably the control structure giving musk all the power while not even holding majority stake, the above is just about starlink and the rocket tech.)

Do they have to get divorced when the kitten dies (of old age obviously)?

Thank you, that’s very useful to know.

That’s interesting. OP implied they can’t be disabled but now I see it was specifically hardware vise.

Does the car still complain if the camera is covered when these are disabled?

We got a modern BYD recently as a rental on a holiday that had this, it was really annoying. Anytime anything happened the car beeped, it was near constant different beeps - super distracting. Most of the things could be turned off, but had to be turned off each time the car was started, on a tablet buried in various menus.

The attention thing also wasn’t working great with the driver wearing sunglasses, it’d randomly start complaining. It also complained when the driver would lean forward to get a better view around a corner or anything.

It was a very fancy car, but I’d definitely never choose a car with these features, even though some may probably be useful.

I’d also never trust one of these companies not to change the policy on what they can do with this camera in the future, at which point you’ll have little to no choice about it. Or, to find out they messed up and now anyone can watch you in your car.

I’d go back to the dealership and complain, either ask for a refund or a way to be able to cover the camera, especially if they only disclosed it as you got the car.

Aside from the other answer, the article also says they’ll still provide “long term support” which includes modding requests. So even if something is missing for modding, they may still add it.

Is it like… they’ll offer to pay me a subscription fee to use them oooor…?

And where is the part about the police officers going to prison for murder or accessory to murder? Some have resigned from duty and there’s some investigation while there is video evidence of them openly dismissing the claim and somehow missing 3 stab wounds?

And how about the stabber’s family who confirmed the lies and stood around watching him die?

It’s a small piece in your observation but I’ve been on the hunt for an android client for jellyfin with downloads that are… usable. Fladder has been so far the only one where this seemed to work okay-ish (it’s still slow, and I noticed it doesn’t detect if the device supports Dolby vision to force transcoding). But still, if your one user is still trying… maybe it helps them a lil.

I see your point and also agree with you, but at the same time it seems like you’re implying it’s a binary choice. Either we support labour or we support the right. The way I see it, they’re a centrist party now at best. I want to support a more leftist/libertarian party. I don’t have to run to vote for reform just because labour didn’t do as well as I hoped, but I also don’t need to vote for labour if they do things I hate (which the war on privacy is).

And of course the online safety act passed with a majority. They’re using the easiest manipulation tactic to describe all of these type of bills that exists. “It’s for the children”. It takes a lot to oppose it while making sure you don’t give ammunition to be smeared with “oh they hate kids/don’t care about children’s wellbeing” while defending it is as simple as repeating it’s to protect kids. Doesn’t even matter what the bill does as long as it can loosely be related it’s a guaranteed “moral high ground”.

Lastly, I don’t think it’s good to excuse bad policies by saying they also did other good things.

On 1, would it not work if you created a new bitcoin wallet, then bought bitcoin with monero and used that bitcoin to pay? I understand BTC isn’t anonymous, but if you fund the wallet only with BTC purchased via monero and don’t re-use the wallet it shouldn’t identify you.

On 2, I meant to test if proton mail (or one of the other providers where the only issue is needing another email address) accepts adding a verification email address to the proton account (which in theory passes the human verification check), where the verification email address is from for example disroot, or from one of the anonymous mail providers. Basically just a test if the human verification check can be circumvented with another provider that would do the human verification check or similar, maybe there is a gap in the validation for one of them.

Does that make sense?

Either way, if you need this to be anonymous and also rotate the account with a high frequency like weekly, probably neither of those will remain feasible even if one of them would maybe work once.

The prices are already going up, look at anthropic’s price hikes, or the GitHub copilot ones. You’re right it is just the start though.

Thank you, that makes more sense. Proton has an article on this (https://proton.me/support/human-verification) and it does imply your use of tor will trigger it (as opposed to only requiring captcha).

My only 3 ideas are:

1. Some search results indicate that upgrading to a paid account removes this issue on proton, but it seems the wording for this on the page above was removed. If you’re willing to try spending some money on it you can try upgrading the proton account with crypto (buy bitcoin with monero?) and pay for a month?

2. Try if they accept adding a verification email from an anonymous provider, or another provider which would do this?

3. If you plan on/have the option to go on a holiday check which countries allow buying prepaid SIM cards for cash without ID and pick one up to pass the verification on one of these providers?

It does seem like someone wants their investments back and pass on the money black hole over to the public.

I’d be surprised if they can continue their business as is after an IPO.