One thing you could look into is your router, some of them let you run a VPN directly on the router and you can choose which devices go through the VPN based on MAC address (at least that’s how mine works) so that way I get my Steam Deck going through Mullvad without installing it on the Deck.
Of course that only works when you’re on your home network though, so it’s a bit limited.
As someone who lives in Canada, I’m hoping we’ll be hard to invade the same way Russia is hard to invade. As in, all these US troops who train in Texas and Florida probably won’t be conditioned to handle doing stuff when it’s -40C outside, so we can all just head north and hope they get stuck and give up lol.
Also, and Americans don’t seem to like it when I say this so apologies in advance, but the US is historically not great at winning wars IMO. They’re great at starting them, but it almost always seems to end up in a quagmire that just drags on for ages and then gets abandoned. So that’s pretty much how I imagine this would go too.
I really feel for Zelenskyy, it’s such a terrible position to be in.
On the one hand, it must be galling to have to play nice with Trump. You know his word is worthless and he’s going to betray Ukraine the first chance he gets, which will probably cost a lot of Ukrainian lives.
On the other hand, if you hard-ball Trump and tell him to fuck off, the war continues and Ukraine probably loses, which also costs a lot of Ukrainian lives.
I really don’t see any way this doesn’t end badly, unless Europe can somehow step up and get Russia to back down. I don’t really see that happening though. I think Ukraine’s fate was sealed when Trump won the election TBH.
I still haven’t bought a PS5 because of this lol. At first it was too expensive and scalpers bought them all, so I thought “no worries, I’ll wait a year or two and get one on the cheap when it’s older.” And then the price kept going up over time so I just never bothered.