There’s a “hub” mode where your endpoint inside the network grants access to the whole network like a standard VPN server.

I’ve been running a Chromecast with Google TV 4k almost since its launch and I’ve been happy with it.

Easy less than the shield would’ve cost me and since it’s only for streaming from jellyfin and YouTube it works great

I don’t think you’re wrong. Yet OP mentioned the 6700xt, which I believe is slower than the 3070…

Kinda why I recommend looking at the gamers nexus articles, because that should give them a good idea of what the current AAA performance of the cards is and would allow some extrapolation based on what they think is relevant to them.

Unless OP goes for flagship GPUs, there’s going to be AAA titles in 2-3 years that won’t run at 60fps 1080p Ultra settings. Especially if they want it to be all big budget games.

What does long term mean to you? Because that is a whole problem of its own.

Generally, bang for buck, the x3d AMD processors are going to provide likely long term high gaming performance. On that end, if you’re really looking long term, you’ll likely want to go with a 7xxx chip and ddr5.

A good SSD, pcie4, should be in there for also your game storage. Don’t grab the cheapest SSD possible. It makes a huge difference. Motherboard, PSU, cooling will follow your other parts.

Graphics cards are going to be really the budget smasher. I’m personally finding my rtx3070 still plenty good, but again, what you consider long term and which AAA games are on your radar vastly influences your options.

take the time to review the recent round ups by gamer’s nexus. Go to their website, as it has the graphs and everything and you don’t have to sit through long videos to grab the info.

I’m not on the US market, so I definitely won’t give it a parts list, but pcpartpicker is apparently pretty good for this from what I heard. Even just to get guidance and then grab stuff somewhere else for possibly cheaper.

Not like they didn’t add that 32 core power license limit once big epyc CPUs came out…

I don’t care so much about that, more so about the “everything is a subscription” bullshit. Hope they are least keep the offline variant…

A VPN is only as much of a security improvement as the service behind it. If it gets installed in a shady way, how much trust can you put into the service?

Not that unusual depending on the software. A lot of them honour the TTL literally.

One enterprise software I know that does it is VMware vcenter. I’m sure there’s plenty of consumer software that retries excessively.

If a lot of it is chrome you might’ve identified the issue that’s actually plaguing you already.

Why not switch to Firefox+ublock… and… you complain about sign in requests when using incognito? Yeah, well, that won’t be different anywhere.

You sound more troll than 30 toolbars in IE4.