I still can’t imagine any better reason.

“but I like Windows”

I can’t imagine any better reason to use Windows than that.

I don’t have any such keys.

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

Not necessarily. It’s reasonably easy to keep long lists of known IP address ranges of known VPN providers and block access to these, but VPN traffic to a not well known IP address is generally impossible to distinguish from perfectly legal encrypted traffic such as a VPN connection to a corporate intranet. (There are also VPN protocols that are made deliberately hard to identify at all.)

ELI5: Why would a VPN provider ever need to have their own app? They don’t have their own VPN technology, do they?

No, you don’t.

One part of my full time job these past fifteen plus years has been to help maintain a foundational open source library that my employer and many many others are dependent on.

When it comes to total impact of open source work, I’m unlikely to ever surpass that.

Commodore’s bankruptcy in 1994 was the end of the Amiga, which forced me to switch to something else.

At the time, the choice of hardware I could afford and operating systems that didn’t suck was extremely limited, a PC with Linux was pretty much the only practical choice and I’ve stuck with that ever since.

I’m still using good ol’ Xournal. It isn’t really particularly good (and I’d be happy to find something better), but I’ve been using it since forever and the force of habit is strong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xournal

In the old days, many decades ago now, the main competitor was always the open source BSD implementation of these utilities — and they’re still around:

https://codeberg.org/dcantrell/bsdutils

TIL: Steam has 32-bit support.

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That seems like a very safe bet:

Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”

Debian, of course.

I’ve had Linux on my work desktop for the past twenty years.

You had me scared there for a moment, but the Syncthing people are dependable and support hasn’t been dropped, it’s just the prebuilt binaries that no longer will be provided.

What does any of that have to do with your login shell?

Why would your login shell need to be fully POSIX compatible?

I’ve had a couple of domains (including one .com) registered under a made-up name for several years, nothing interesting ever happened.

When I bought my first PC in 1994.

At the time, the choice of hardware I could afford and operating systems that didn’t suck was extremely limited, a PC with Linux was pretty much the only practical choice and I’ve stuck with that ever since.