• souperk@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    Grew up in a home without an internet connection. A friend helped me crack our neighbour’s WiFi password, at the time it was surprisingly easy if you had a copy of Kali Linux.

    Edit: This post got me wondering how I could open up a free WiFi network without being liable for any potential illegal activity someone may do? I got a fairly good access point and the bandwidth to spare, but I am afraid to share it in case the police comes knocking on my door…

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    I’d probably go either to Lowes or Walmart.

    Walmart requires an email now, but I set up an anonymous email just for that.

    Email: [email protected] Password: Walmart1

    It’s registered in their system to the name Anonymous Human. Feel free to use that to access Walmart WiFi anonymously. 👍

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    Bar down the street has free WiFi and food. So probably there. The library is all the way across town, so not a great option for me.

    Or there’s another bar close enough to my house that I could probably make an antenna and leech off that. I did that with on base housing back in the day cuz I didn’t want to pay for internet.

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    5 months ago

    My local library is quite and has comfy seating and I already go there. So if u had no mobile data or home wifi I would do my interneting there.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    School, bus station, many other places of my city with free internet.
    I also used to steal neighbor’s WiFi for years. Since I was 8 until I was 14. But for larger downloads I used public networks. By larger downloads, I meant >50MB. Yeah. Huge. Though I was watching YouTube quite a bit, usually at 144p/240p. In the end I still spent quite a bit.

    Currently I just use mobile data. Still no normal internet connection at home. But hey, my school finally has symmetric gigabit. The only problem is, most classrooms are connected via Fast Ethernet.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    When I didn’t, I would walk three blocks to the library with my laptop once a day to check my email, read webcomics, look up GameFAQs and stream Gossip Girl.

    Maybe the “GameFAQs” gives it away but this was before smartphones.