Kinda sucks here ngl, but Europe is SO small. Like that high school graduate who came back from gap year to a high school party saying he traveled “all over Europe” just to pick up girls. Come on guy, it’s like a metro rail pass and a two weeks time.
Yeah, it sucks in the US but we only have to deal with OUR idiots, we don’t have to deal with our own idiots PLUS a neighbor’s that are crazy unstable. I’m not in missile range of anything since the 60’s. Just saying.
In the early 00’s, we put DSL on a business card shaped cdrw and carried them around. When it would get too hot outside we’d go to the library and boot into Linux, bypassing the software firewalls they were running and download as much music as we could to a tape drive. It took a few weekends to get the drivers and software right but it worked and was so much faster than our home connections. $5 got you top10 hits from any genre you wanted. We thought we were SO smart like we invented bootlegging.