Do you know if Proton’s port forwarding times out and needs to be reconfigured every so often in the same way the other commenter mentions about Windscribe?

I had not read about this criticism of KPMG before. For the benefit of other readers, I found this other forum post from March 2025 where commenters question the worthiness of the KPMG audit for PureVPN. For my own part, I’m not sure I understand what an audit that’s acceptable to privacy communities would look like. If somebody can elaborate on this, I would appreciate it.

I was afraid of that, but thanks for confirming.

My only reservation was that it’ll take a really long time (several terabytes on traditional HDDs) but perhaps that is the way to go.

pay to leech

Just chiming in w/ my own experience: In the six weeks since I joined through open registration, there have been at least two periods of global freeleech. Even outside of those times, almost everything I’ve searched for has had multiple versions to choose from, and more often than not, at least one of those versions is permanent freeleech.

There are also multiple bonus point giveaways daily. While there are various donation tiers for those who cannot or will not maintain their ratio through seeding or bonus point buys, it’s definitely not pay to leech—I started from scratch a month ago and I’m doing fine.

I was wondering if anyone would bring up Incus. I’m still pretty new to all this. From what I can tell, there seems to be a larger community around Proxmox, but I’ve seen enough mentions of Incus to pique my curiosity. I’ll have to explore this some more. Thanks for mentioning it.

Good point, thanks for clarifying that. I suppose the theft scenario is iffy, but it’ll still help in case I ever sell (or junk) the disk.

These notes are gold—thank you so much for sharing!

You swapped the kernel? I guess I’ll find out soon enough when I attempt my setup, but as I gather up the motivation to dive in, I’m assuming it will be as simple as installing a proxmox package or something. I guess I should re-read the guides. 🤣

That would be dope if you wouldn’t mind sharing your notes. There’s a decent amount of documentation out there already, but I often find it extremely valuable to read different people’s perspectives from real life experience in addition to the official guides. No pressure. Either way, thanks for chiming in!

Good to know. Thanks!

Peace of mind.

Thanks for the tip. I have no experience w/ ZFS, but I’ll keep this in mind in case I go that route. Thank you!

Thanks, I’ll look into dropbear. I’ve seen it mentioned in other posts, and with a quick search I found what appears to be a nice, solid guide: Full Disk Encryption Reboot with DropbearSSH. Thank you!