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I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there's free client and server software.

But if it's for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.

I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But if it’s for spoofing

Yeah. I just thu that in there thinking that in as an example. Of course, you're right, you'd get clinked.