There's also stores where you can buy gift cards for real-world things (Amazon etc.) with Monero.
I guess that's highly location dependant, we don't have amazon in my country. Even if we did I'd rather use my credit card than shop with them though...
IME crypto is largely useless as a means of payment, not just in the real world but also online. Literally nothing I have ever bought online could be paid with crypto, no stores that sell useful tangible things takes them, be it hardware (kitchen, computer, whatever...), groceries, things for hobby projects. There's just nowhere to spend it.
AFAIK it's the IPs of the VPN server that gets flagged in these cases. Not sure how that could be masked, it would probably basically just be using a different VPN server
Cell phone data is fairly low priced in the EU compared to the US...I used to pay $17/month for 50GB data and 5G access, and I could use 10GB of that without extra charge in all EU countries. I've reduced my plan now to 10GB/month because i wasn't using more than that, and it costs $10/month
You can easily download for offline listening with spotify. Even piracy will require internet connection for later offline consumption, and getting music from physical media is way more work than most realistically want to do today.
I really can't see how it follows the same logic...you're talking about distributed computing using multiple computers, I'm talking about a single piece of hardware which handles it internally.
Not really though...I'm running everything related to torrenting and streaming in docker on the same bare metal with a 32tb array of HDDs in it, everything is just stored in the torrent downloads folder and organized with hardlinks in the jellyfin directory.
Unless the dog is the size of a literal rat (even those pocket-sized chihuahuas are too tall), the mower is completely unable to harm it beyond gently bumping it to it.
So, is this datacenter only for ass or do you use it for other stuff as well?