Task: Create a paid ChatGPT account and set up a work project

Actually, I originally wanted to connect a paid Anthropic account, but it refused to accept either of my two international Georgian cards. Annoying.

In the end, I registered for ChatGPT. But that didn't turn out to be so simple either. I'm currently in Vietnam, and to my surprise, I discovered that I simply cannot register on chatgpt.com. That is, the old authorization works (I registered a long time ago via VPN), but I can't go through a new registration. What's interesting is how it plays out — the interface loads, but when I enter my email, the API request is sent, the code arrives in the mail, but nothing happens after that. By all indications, the Vietnamese provider is simply dropping some of the packets and the request hangs infinitely. As a result, neither the code input field appears nor are cookies set (if they should be, since information about new cookies usually arrives precisely in the response headers). Anyway, I finally had to install a new VPN. And I had been putting that off for a long time. Previously, I had a working VPN that I could trust, but just installing something third-party like that, and having traffic fly through someone else... Well, I'm a bit of a paranoid, I didn't want to. And now I really needed to, and in such cases, I usually set up 3proxy on my own server, but as soon as I remembered all those complex dances around it, I felt a bit sad. I went and asked Google's AI which VPN is easiest to install on my Linux server. And it suggested a somewhat unexpected topic — Amnezia proxy. It says you install the program on your computer and specify right inside it that you need to go through your server, enter the server address, the private key, and the program sets everything up itself. I've heard about Amnezia more than once, so I decided to trust it. I tried it. Not that everything went completely smoothly, but overall it was totally tolerable, and most importantly — proxying went through my server without the extra hassle of configuring that server. But another joy is the absence of the need to fight with network settings at the level of your own computer. Previously, you had to go into settings, and here you just select the server, click connect, and boom, you are in another location. Then disconnect, and you're back home. Pure joy! I'll also add a Russian server for myself, because when you are in Russia, you have trouble reaching external services, and when you are not in Russia, your task is to reach Russian services, as many of them now refuse to just open up :-)