Maybe they figure people will use it docked? And phones have ports on the bottom, they’re not so bad to use while charging.

Can you not afford to pay for the cap to be removed? I do that, it’s like $15/month extra or something.

I used Borg to backup a bunch of dev servers a few years ago, about 5TB from several dozen hosts, over several years. It worked flawlessly, and its dedupe is downright magical.

The restore workflow, where you just mount a snapshot and copy what you need, is fantastic. Very straightforward and reliable.

Mullvad because they don’t need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.