TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

 TL;DR:  It's not good. Fed up with PIA , I decided to try another VPN.  I thought it might be easiest. I wanted Hotspot Shield, but the fact that they log personally identifiable information, don't support pfsense and have no live support were deal-breakers.  I wanted it set up immediately.   I decided to bite the bullet and go with ExpressVPN.   More expensive, but most said they were next fastest, they had 24/7 support and supported DD-WRT (for now) and pfsense (for future).   I ponied up and got a login.  I had to run their app momentarily to find the fastest server, then I set it all up. Any it worked!  All my smart devices reconnected, all my strange connectivity issues went away.    However, I couldn't find the nameservers for secure DNS protection.  I asked their chat, and they didn't know what I meant. Turns out, ExpressVPN doesn't support this.  They do allow manual configuration (on DD-WRT or whatever), bu...

Update:  Flud has begun consistently crashing (without errors) on the Minix.  It only runs for a few minutes and then unexpectedly disappears.  This makes it pretty hard to use the Minix for torrenting. Update #2:  Gave up on using the Minix for torrenting because the torrent software is simply not up to the task.  Flud seemed to work best, but has absolutely no support, and started downloading very, very slowly all the time.  I purchased an Asis Veriton with an SSD and, though costly, it does what I need it to do very, very, VERY well.  (It also has a serial port - yes, real RS-232 DB-9 style - for running my antique Zebra Z6Mplus thermal printer.) After noting how slow my Eeebox PC was compared to the Android-based Minix player, I wondered if I could move my torrents from the PC to the media player. The short answer is: not quite.  The main reason is that the torrent clients for Android are not quite there yet. To be fair, a torrent cli...