If it has not been regularly audited there is really no reason to trust a vpn provider. Wait until they have some proof they do what they say.

I don't think that's very effective these days. There are so many sources of publicly available information for sites to verify against that this attempt at "poisoning the well", so to speak, would be drowned out.

Micro G is the worst option as it requires privileged access to your phone. This is the same major privacy issue with the regular Play Store. The only real difference is your shifting trust from Google to Micro G but, you shouldn't be trusting any third party with that type of access.

Aurora is a decent option as it allows you access to the Play Store without needing to actually install the Google Play Client.

I would say sandboxed Google Play is the best option. You get full access to the play store while still having the protections of a sandboxed app.

A lot of people will offer f-droid as an alternative but it also comes with some big issues. I'll quote privacy guides here

Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust. Additionally, the requirements for an app to be included in the official F-Droid repo are less strict than other app stores like Google Play, meaning that F-Droid tends to host a lot more apps which are older, unmaintained, or otherwise no longer meet modern security standards.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

You can at least self host this option. Still a lot of the same privacy issues any type of tracking software is going to have.

I got a "no package found matching input criteria" using this method.

It also appears to only offer version 1.0.15 whereas the newest version is 1.2.10

If I'm not mistaken, 1.0.15 was the last windows / Mac version released before the dev paywalled them.

If you look at the releases they are just translation fixes. There hasn't been any real development in some time.

I don't think that's true, correct me if I am wrong though. There are still other requirements you have to follow for the GPL3 license if you wanted to distribute it legally.

Thanks!

I've been running into issues currently with nvidia drivers causing an error, which in turn causes the script to fail when trying to create the containers.

Sounds pretty similar to windows. Now I just have to learn how to use fedora and get everything installed correctly 😂

Thanks so much, will let you know once I'm able to get through it (hopefully this week).

The only thing I don't see here that I was thinking of trying is to integrate in Real debrid via the rdt client. Which seems like it should work basically the same way as it does for Plex on Windows. Any thoughts?

https://github.com/rogerfar/rdt-client

For the past 5ish years I had google WiFi pucks (gen 1, ac1200). 4 pucks, one as the router 3 as APs. 3/4 pucks were wired.

Switched over to using a NanoPi R4S (4GB version) as my router and 2x ZyXEL NWA50AX Pros for my APs. The cost for this is actually right around OPs budget, maybe a bit over.

The biggest improvements, in terms of speed for me, are devices that are WiFi 6 capable now getting much better wireless speeds (not super surprising), some going from around 200mbps to about 600mbps.

To be clear there there are over 30 devices on my network spread over 2000 sqft so I am a bit reluctant to reduce everything to a couple of speed tests when there are other factors involved.

It might be helpful to specify your network needs. The system you linked is a WiFi 5 system. That's 10+ year old technology.

What kind of speeds are you looking for? Will your access points be wired or wireless?