@Wave Looks good. So it indeed is a stack of 6 CPUs with their adjacent RAM sticks. Cool packaging. I wish the also did the noise measurement. I wonder if these X5's are also as ear-raping as btc-miners are.

@simping4xmrchan the only ones that should be responsible for caring about the children are their parents. Let go of the nanny-state bullshit.

@simping4xmrchan fucking sucks. Outrageous to know there will be no push-back from the normies. We have a similar situation in Turkiye, too. One cannot travel without the all-seeing eye of the government digital surveillance systems...

Again, there won't be a push-back by the populace. They are too de-sensitized, made devoid of their agency, and turned into a cattle by the techno-capital's many forms of brainwashing entertainment systems.

Given this, what else legitimizes the fairy-tale of democracy, then? "Power to the people," but which of them are willing to use power?

@Saki I run whatever I want on my computers. Politicians can go pound sand.

@shortwavesurfer unbelievable that some corpos turn to subpar solutions like LN. Many people can't get that working (re: SethforPrivacy's recent tweet).

Monero could've easily supplanted bitcoin for use in paying kagi, or to ivpn for that matter. Ivpn has recently announced a small-time vpn subscription service, and they also announced they will take LN payments for it. Good luck getting it working.

@shortwavesurfer

>Plus they now accept crypto as payment

They aren't accepting Monero yet, I guess.

@shortwavesurfer @rar any advantage in using kagi instead of various searxNG/whoogle instances that are free to use? Also, brave's search engine is getting better.

@rar I pay for my own domain name + VPS for ~45 USD per quarter. (I know there are cheaper providers, but I am happy with my current one).

I don't use VPN, I use Tor while browsing and use I2P while torrenting---so I don't pay a dime to obfuscate my online trails.

I use a free tier from a "privacy-conscious" email provider, so I don't pay for that either. I don't self-host my email and I don't seek die-hard email privacy with mine, currently. At most, I PGP-encrypt some of them.

I self-host my own matrix server, which is an e2ee chatting service. So, that goes into my VPS subscription.