Brickfrog

Ideally cryptocurrencies, that’s what I usually use to donate to FOSS projects nowadays.

But aside from that Liberapay and Ko-fi seem to work fine for a ton of projects… this is assuming the project maintainers(s) are able to set up Stripe to receive the donation money afterwards.

Welcome to the club :P

Not surprising coming from PayPal, elementary OS should really just move away from them. Fun fact: If their PayPal account was banned that means all recent donators that sent them money through PayPal were also banned/had their accounts frozen.

I used to use PayPal maybe 15-20 years ago and used to donate to FOSS projects with it. At one point PayPal decided I was being shady and banned my account. At the time figured it was just my own problem but later on I heard from one of those FOSS projects, turned out that their own PayPal account was banned in the process due to receiving money from a banned account.

I could ping servers but not load the webpage.

Were you testing ping with the Don’t Fragment (DF) option enabled? That’s the usual method to determine the specific MTU size you need.

e.g. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2440411

I lost interest in IVPN after they removed port forwarding functionality so it doesn’t affect me but it is interesting you’d need to worry about the MTU size at all, wonder if that’s due to their software or maybe specific VPN servers you’re connecting to on their network have different MTU sizes.