Attach some dangling USB modem with a data SIM, or just keep a mobile router with a data SIM in your backpack, for 3G/4G/5G data connectivity over WiFi. Then, use some VoIP provider if you actually need a phone number as well.

Everytime is hammer time

Buying and owning something like a house on a piece of land, though, is very different to paying for a service with artificially limited monthly usage, a short limited lifetime and probably no repairability once it for some reason “stops working”.

However, in this specific case of a house, you will probably still be forced by some state or another to continuously pay property taxes etc while owning it, but blame them for that – it’s not the house or the property’s fault. They’ll also take a cut whenever you buy your bread (unless your friend is a baker) and every single time you pay your monthly/quarterly/lifetime subscription to some ISP.

Let’s not dig much deeper than this, though, since this is turning into a yet another discussion about rulers, taxes etc, which is interesting enough, surely, but I’d rather discuss it with someone else, to be honest. All I wanted was to let you know that you surely have an IP address if you’re connected to the internet, even without paying extra for a static one, in case you didn’t know that. Now we’re here, and your lifetime subscription to my limited comments service is just about to expire…

yall were being obtuse about my point that one needs to “pay rent” for an internet connection

No, it was obviously clear to most of us the whole time that you can pay an ISP to get internet connection, and that that necessarily includes some kind of IP address since the service wouldn’t work without it. Once you have subscribed to a provider’s service, some offer a static IP as a paid add-on.

SIMO Solis Lite Mobile WLAN Router - 100$ one time purchase price. And they claim: Includes 1GB of free global data volume per month, for the lifetime of the device

I’m not sure what you’re on about now. You’re still paying rent (though up-front instead of monthly or quarterly), and some IP address is still necessarily included within the price. How is that different to you, other than the fact that you don’t know when it expires?

That’s what it seems like to me as well, and I just tried to be helpful and informative, not argue with them about how something that’s necessarily included by default is obviously contained in the price…

Of course you have to pay for internet service to get the included defaults necessary for it to work. Just like you get a bowl/container when ordering hot soup from a restaurant, and just like a phone number is usually included in the price of telephone service – except that a dynamic IP is somewhat analogous to sharing that phone number, or that bowl of soup, with other customers.

My point is that a static IP is often a paid add-on while the dynamic IP is the included default, since you wouldn’t be able to use the internet service without some sort of IP address anyway.

I believe you only need to pay for a static IP. A dynamic IP would be the default option included, and should just work with a dynamic DNS service AFAIK. With a static IP, a dynamic DNS service should not be necessary.

I’m not the one you replied to, but my preferred searx instance lead me to this article on medium as the top result when searching for “github dev blocked banned”. It’s about a case from 2020. Could it be that one?

I couldn’t have done it without you.

This isn’t a comment, it’s negative feedback.

Once they figure that out, they’ll probably just make any encryption illegal…

Then we will probably just develop encryption algorithms that look like regular text messages, or hide the encrypted content inside some audio, image, video or other normal types of files.

Here they are already starting a system of garbage bags with nfc tags to have our garbage controlled.

Sounds like a great way of getting people to throw their garbage in any place other than the bag…

Yeah, unlike a human that understands a customer saying “one pizzaburger, that’s all”, the app doesn’t understand the situation that the order is complete, but rather just keeps on asking more obviously unwanted cringey questions like “buy two, you’ll save a few cents on the second one?” or “what will you drink with that?” or “is that a big menu?”…

Are you rhyming on purpose? Let me just edit that last line a bit to make it work even better:

They have the best lettuce and cheese,

and their breakfast beats McD’s.

The Hash browns are actually hash browns

instead of the thin $2.50 ones sold at the clown’s.

Do you mean pin as in creating a shortcut to the webapp on the homescreen/launcher?

Looking forward to the infinitely scalable quantum AI blockchain cloud virtualization E2E P2P VPN micro-services!

What stops anyone from making new GUIs, maybe even a new framework for doing that, optimised for touchscreens rather than keyboard and mouse?

Maybe I’m just unknowledgeable, but to me that idea doesn’t sound very far-fetched.

Who wants to run scaled down desktop apps on their phone

I believe the UI of most apps could be made to work well with phone display sizes and resolutions.

and who wants a terminal on a phone either?

Well, I do! It’s great when you want to connect, do or automate something there isn’t an app for. For now I sometimes run Termux on Android. Among smartphone users in general I’m probably an edge case, but among Linux users, I must say, using a terminal on the phone doesn’t seem that crazy to me.