I am going to recommend AzireVpn, I used to be a customer and was very happy, but switched to proton some years ago because I had my email with them. Not sure if their apps are open source and if they have browser extensions though.

Did someone forget to say thank you again?

What benefits? Are there any benefits so far? It's taking people's jobs away, uses massive amounts of water and electricity, stealing everything creative the human race has produced, is most likely creating a financial bubble and is robbing many professions from ever having an experienced work force, due to no entry level jobs.

Probably needs some super intelligence

I mean, the word prostitution comes to mind.

What remains after all wants have been stripped away and only chores remain.

Yup, routinely use different techniques to run Linux on my work laptop. I've been at places where they have official support for Linux distros, with AD integration through services like sssd. I've also been at places where running a virtual Linux machine was possible, others where I was allowed to unlock secure boot temporarily to be able to to add a new signed binary for a Linux distro, running on a USB stick.

I'm not a copperophile or anything, but that is a thing of beauty.

Currently listening through the dungeon crawler Carl series with the missus, we're currently on the dungeon anarchist's cookbook. On my own, I've just started the blacksmith's son, the first book in the mageborn series.

I think doing just a poweroff might leave some services in an unclean state. I think systemctl poweroff make sure the services are shutdown cleanly before powering down.

Man I miss Oink.

I know how you feel, sometimes life gets us down, but remember that nothing bad lasts forever.

Sending you virtual hugs.