I have no experience with Windscribe other than that I recall looking into them when I was personally looking to replace Mullvad.
All I can offer is that their pricing is pretty much on par with ProtonVPN, who I have found to be very solid.
Proton also has a free tier, though I'm not sure how well P2P works on it.
difficult and/or illegal.
I don't think using a VPN gets you out of the illegal part, lol.
...okay, but how is Quest 3 usage not the same as Index usage? I'm not sure the comparison really makes sense.
100%. They're the only ones making a decent rotisserie chicken these days, and it's only $8!?
$10-20 is what that VPS costs at a cloud provider. You could also dockerize and use a container service like GCP Cloud Run combined with cloud storage within that budget.
I'm not a big node guy, but I also kind of doubt nodejs would fail to handle 10RPS on 2gb of memory. I guess it all depends on what the requests are doing.
Not sure that transmission supports it, but other torrent clients (qbitorrent, deluge) allow binding the torrent client to your VPN interface. That way, you literally can't torrent on anything but your VPN connection (even if a killswitch fails/the VPN isn't running)
I respect the fuck out of Brolund. He was giving press conferences between firefighting shifts, while also himself being evacuated.
I use a VPS from RackNerd for all kinds of things (my personal Lemmy, for one). Have had it for two and a half years or so with no complaints.
If you are on Linux and require port forwarding, there is a bit of work that needs to be done.
Otherwise, it's very solid.
Mostly just poking fun. It came off as an odd flex (laughing at people who choose to pay for media) while also repping software that has features locked behind a paid tier (a subscription, at that)
Lots of people, often unknowingly. If you run apt install firefox on Ubuntu, you're getting the snap version.