As much as I love the fediverse, its control structures can’t scale. If it ever became truly popular, bad actors would overwhelm it almost immediately.

Depends on the state, some require both parties to know the conversation is being recorded. “I’m recording this call” should be enough.

While it “should” be enough for a company “agent” to tell you the account is paid off. Courts tend to be pro business and there’s probably language in the contract about mistakes…

In that case, just set up a router level VPN. The university probably doesn’t give a shit. Which is why the help desk IT kid said it’s fine, probably.

It’s the 3rd party ISP just being greedy. The ISP may not even care as long as you’re not running an insane amount of traffic through it. Often this type of stuff is added to TOSs to allow them the option, if you’re being a bad actor.

ROFL, I like Linux, but if you can’t install windows 11 easily. The problem isn’t win11…