dude that’s a ton of money but I would be losing it by day 2

are other people allowed to talk about me? like if I meet up with an online friend IRL would they be able to update my other friends?

I really don’t want to, but for that amount I would

That’s rather expensive. I expect at least five years if I have to pay that much money.

Yes.

I need internet for work, but other than that - yeah, sure!

I already self-host many things, and it’d be reasonably straightforward to make them work in local WiFi with no internet. TLS certs would be something to fix (custom CA).

For chatting with friends, I’d set up a low-bandwith software modem over telephone, with some sort of store-and-forward system like SMTP (email) or Secure Scuttlebutt, Syncthing for files.

For keeping in touch with kids in school or other comms needs within a kilometer or 5, I’d buy a handful of Meshtastic radios.

In a heartbeat. Seriously, I’d do it for half the price.

Where do I sign up? I’ll sell an apartment to buy that privilege.

Yehs please, where do I apply?

Pay off Student Loans

Buy enough insulin for a year.

Donate the rest to the fund looking to assassinate political adversaries. .

Yes.

Basically all my work communicate exclusively through email, so that will be an issue. But for $200k I can set an autoreply and ignore it. I have a year of leave that I could use, this would be a good use of it.