calidris [he/him, comrade/them]

Agreed. I almost exclusively run scripts.

PowerShell isn’t that bad. Yeah I said it.

Look for dell latitudes with 7th and maybe 8th gen Intel CPUs. Those are solid machines that aren’t considered upgradable to win11. They also have removable RAM (DDR4 IIRC) so many can be upgraded to 32GB max.

I use it. Got the early bird special they’ve been running. It’s pretty good once you get a feel for the exit nodes. It’s much more prone to being blocked by sites like YouTube than other big name VPNs I’ve used, but as time passes it’s getting better. It’s rare I can’t find one that works eventually. No account needed and the mixnet feature are great for the privacy minded.