Sorry, you're probably right. It's a thing I expect to be problematic if the future. Of course all problems will burn up in the atmosphere...

and isn't that a nice thought, but no, it raises orbit fairly naturaly...

Yup, but scatter might be bad...Still, in principle, better satellites live...

Not wrong, and yet small parts of that 'orbit' would kinetically increase, in a Kessler sort of way...

Don't worry, greed ensures that Kessler Syndrome will get them in the not too distant future. Sure hope you aren't reliant on GPS or other satellite services, but at least, for a shining moment, shareholders got some value. /s

As it should be, don't do that.

Doctor, when I do this it hurts...

Also, you're creating a disk image...

Pass it on...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

governments and surveillance, name a more iconic pair

Shocker, tax avoiding megacorps use the same accounting principles for carbon avoidance. Presumably with te aid of the same in-pocket politicians.

Umm, if I understand you, it should be fine, you'd have the app and also proxies available on 8388 and 8888 or whatever you prefer on a different tunnel... It's pretty much the VPN swiss army knife. Use wireguard if you can, it's a lot faster (but more CPU intensive).

rclone supports lots of services

including Proton Drive ...