I left Private Internet Access (PIA) for Proton VPN after the Kape acquisition years ago. Still happy with my decision and I recommend Proton VPN to anybody in the market for personal VPN services.

The general take away is “Surveillance is oppression and it is the responsibility of the people to stand up against oppression”.

A few other quotes I like that fit the theme.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

— V (V for Vendetta)

“Without privacy, you can’t have anything for yourself. Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

— Edward Snowden

I’ve got my Plex server running on an Intel NUC 8 with 2 USB 2TB solid state drives serving as local storage for my media.