I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.
As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.
My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.
Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.
I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.
My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.
TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.
If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.
Gender as a social construct tends to pretty strongly fall under the umbrella of "this is one of the arbitrary societal rules" that you run across just about everytime you talk with a regular person for me. I like being male, but all the trappings of being male, like muscles, beards, beer, bars, hunting, whatever, are only there because people say they belong there, and not because that is a thing I feel makes sense on its own merits. Essentially, long flowing wedding dresses as daily office wear on men would make just as much sense as a suit and tie does.
However, gender, for me, very specifically has me appreciate what I was born with. I like having a beard, I like having muscles, and I like the traditionally masculine clothes I wear. These things just aren't really connected to my self-perceived identity as a man. I wear my clothes because they feel right, not because they're what men wear. I keep my beard because it's fun to have, not because men have beards.
I think the autism just makes connecting "this societal trend tends to read as male or female" to "this is how I feel as a man/woman/other" a lot harder for us than it is for most people. The only reason I even learned about what being trans feels and looks like is because of the people in my life who are trans. If they had instead transitioned and just said nothing beyond "use this name and pronoun", I don't know how much I would have actually noticed about it. I had siblings penciling mustaches on years ago and just kinda went "fashion lmao" and didn't look any deeper into it. Like, my parents asked me specifically about the mustache, and I brushed it off, because all trends are arbitrary to my eyes; this was just one more thing on a long list of things that don't have to make sense to be followed as a rule.