How-to: how exactly
One article, one task. When the main guide says "do X" and you wonder how, look here.
Accounts and payment
- Create a Google account (Gmail)
- Change your Gmail address
- Secure your Google account
- Create a non-China Apple ID
- Top up a US Apple ID with a gift card
- Open PayPal and link it to a US Apple ID
- Create a GitHub account
- Paying on overseas websites
- Add a payment card to your Google account
- Subscribe to Claude on iPhone (App Store)
- Subscribe to Claude on Android (Google Play)
Server
- Buy a server from BandwagonHost
- Buy a server from DMIT
- Reinstall the OS as Ubuntu
- Change the root password and use the rescue console
- Check traffic
- IP blocked in China
- Refund a server and buy a new one
AI tools
- Install WSL on Windows
- Install Claude Code
- Install Codex
- Install the xiaoxiaodong-vps skill
- Have AI health-check your server
Apps
- Clash Verge Rev (Windows)
- Clash Verge Rev (Mac)
- Turn on TUN mode
- Shadowrocket (iPhone, iPad)
- Android apps
- v2rayN (alternative, desktop)
- OpenClash on a router (advanced)