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Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
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Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#32This all sounds like renting to me. Instead you should: - put a rack in your home - buy an IPv4 block - buy dark fibre - start your own ISP - advertise routes over BGP - host your own email - found a registrar and transfer your domains over All easily obtainable for less than a million dollars in capital. Though once your FTTH and undersea cable operations ramp up you'll need further access to capital.
You forgot the steps of pressing your own silicon wafers in the garage, followed by soldering motherboards from zero, and of course, having a steel mill to build racks and computer cases. The only way to ensure true independence. In all seriousness, I am a big advocate for hosting your own infrastructure as much as you can, but that requires you to be REALLY into doing it. Otherwise, it's just a completely unnecessar…
No, that comes far later, after energy self-sufficiency, at which point your operational expenses can be minimized. Then we can start talking about going fully vertical to reduce our supply chain dependencies.
If you're concerned about silicon dependencies, I'd recommend starting with some real estate purchases (mines) and forming a Special Economic Zone first, though.
Remember this is about being an owner and not a renter. The only restriction is our recurring costs, but we have unlimited room upfront, like a Lincoln.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
You forgot the steps of pressing your own silicon wafers in the garage, followed by soldering motherboards from zero, and of course, having a steel mill to build racks and computer cases. The only way to ensure true independence. In all seriousness, I am a big advocate for hosting your own infrastructure as much as you can, but that requires you to be REALLY into doing it. Otherwise, it's just a completely unnecessar…
Don’t forget creating a society capable of supporting industry and science. On a planet producing enough of the raw materials. In a Universe with appropriate fundamental physical constants etc etc.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#34This all sounds like renting to me. Instead you should: - put a rack in your home - buy an IPv4 block - buy dark fibre - start your own ISP - advertise routes over BGP - host your own email - found a registrar and transfer your domains over All easily obtainable for less than a million dollars in capital. Though once your FTTH and undersea cable operations ramp up you'll need further access to capital.
Step 1: Simply create your own Starlink.
To host a raspberry pi from scratch, you must first create the internet
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#35This all sounds like renting to me. Instead you should: - put a rack in your home - buy an IPv4 block - buy dark fibre - start your own ISP - advertise routes over BGP - host your own email - found a registrar and transfer your domains over All easily obtainable for less than a million dollars in capital. Though once your FTTH and undersea cable operations ramp up you'll need further access to capital.
Step 1: Simply create your own Starlink.
Step 1 is always "Create the universe".
Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#36Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#37This all sounds like renting to me. Instead you should: - put a rack in your home - buy an IPv4 block - buy dark fibre - start your own ISP - advertise routes over BGP - host your own email - found a registrar and transfer your domains over All easily obtainable for less than a million dollars in capital. Though once your FTTH and undersea cable operations ramp up you'll need further access to capital.
Step 1: Simply create your own Starlink.
You need to constantly launch new satellites as old ones undergo orbital decay and run out of fuel.
Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#38tl;dr: - Don't depend on other people's software services. - Buy a domain and host your own website. - Don't pick a sketchy TLD or registrar. - Mailing lists beat social media accounts. - It's okay to depend on a cloud. I had the belief that the article was going to say the exact opposite wrt. cloud hosting. You're literally renting space, and if your stuff gets any heat, your cloud provider may simply shut you down…
> - Don't depend on other people's software services.
> - Buy a domain and host your own website.
I had the exact chain of thought, only to find that traffic of the site I built is at the mercy of how Google decided to rank webpages, and putting AI > youtube > Reddit in front of everything else.
> - Mailing lists beat social media accounts.
Similarly, Google set the metric for what counts as spams. Your emails can all go to the spam folder if their AI decides it should.
Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#39Ctrl+F "Bitcoin", 0 results.
There are also zero NFTs.
It's a solid guide, in other words.
Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
#40Other notes: use projects that are either supported by a community, or have a motivated developer (buy their a Patreon sponsorship if you can).