So are Signal’s serverside components.

WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.

Ah ok. Well, as I said I lived there for years and i’m telling you they can and do block VPN traffic (not all, another commenter mentioned Astrill) quite well. To say zero success is incorrect.

Location (and peering) might be a factor, so if you/your friends lived somewhere different to I your experience may differ.

I spent years living in China. Do you really mean zero success?

OpenVPN stopped working in 2017. Deep packet inspection prevents the initial handshake. I hosted my own SS for a number of years before switching to wireguard, with more success… however, they IP ban a majority of VPS IP ranges, so the providers Linode/DigitalOcean were messed up.

And everyone experiences VPN slow down during CPC conferences.

It can only be worse now.

AOL even made its way to the UK. Free CDs all over the place, even accompanying paid coputing mags.

I’m glad it went away.

Not a problem in western Europe.

Yes.. The pitfalls of FOSS is that some dude is working on it when they have free time. I’ve been using it for 2 years and can’t say I mind… would like to have the word suggestions, though.

Relevant github discussion https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/discussions/2197

I am with you. So easy to use. I have Dietpi running as lightweight OS on my VMs for when i don’t want LXCs.

Yoy might be thinking of Kodi. Plays media just fine on a RasPi, bit of a different experience though!