![](https://lemmy.keychat.org/pictrs/image/1f08ce6b-6c40-4066-b51c-7abb6cdc5ad6.jpeg)
![](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a18b0c69-23c9-4b2a-b8e0-3aca0172390d.png)
Simple: make friends with someone with high speed internet who’s not very savvy, keep up the charade until they allow you to borrow their computer. Then you install a headless vpn server with logging disabled. Boom, high speed local VPN that doesn’t point to you. Just buy them a $2.50 beer once a month to keep up pretenses in case you need to do maintenance.
I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.