I just bought my father a flat with some spare cash. I live in a rich country and he lives in a poor one. So, no need for rich parents or a lottery, just the right place :)

Lol, that’s insanity. No wonder you chose Trump to lead you, lol.

Wut? It doesn’t matter what you do - you still pay taxes (unless you’re Bezos). Thus everything is paid by you in advance. Also, which shithole has different taxes between cities?

There’s no need to torture the definition. You are paying taxes, thus the services you’re getting are not free.

Only if you don’t pay taxes. Nothing is free.

The Common SNES game price in the UK in 1990-s was £59.99. that would be way over £100 in today’s money. Games today are the cheapest they’ve ever been.

I don’t know what the situation is in your country, but here’s an example from the UK.

Imagine you bought a £500k house in London just after the pandemic. The mortgage rates were around 1.2-1.3%. You could afford monthly payments at the time, everything looked cool. Now a couple years later the war in Ukraine starts, economy tanks and interest rates go over 7%. Now your monthly payments become 3-4x higher and you’re fucked. You lose your house, become homeless and you still owe half a mil. The end.

Banks used to trust people and that has led to GFC. So most governments now have legal frameworks to ensure that banks don’t trust you anymore. I don’t think you want another GFC.

There’s a good reason for that, VPNs are extensively used by bot networks for all kinds of activity. But VPN use by bots is actually coming down slowly as bot networks start to switch to residential mobile networks - it’s impossible to block them and you can cycle connections automatically like you do with VPN when using specialised residential mobile IP providers. So maybe web sites will stop blocking VPNs in a few years.

Lemmy is nowhere near the wealth of information available on Reddit. And if we’re talking about hobbies, then literally no one gives a shit about Lemmy. The whole of the Fediverse has only 50k daily active users, most of them are on Mastodon. Lemmy is just a tiny fraction of those 50k. The main 3D printing sub alone has more active users than the whole Lemmy.

That leads to a situation where knowledgeable people from the industry and hobby leaders don’t post anything here. I’m not even sure many of them even heard of it.

So, if you want some help or to learn something, you either go to specialised forums or to Reddit. Lemmy is for memes and throwing feces at each other. Which is fun.

Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.

It’s a half baked alpha version.