I switched from Proton to Mullvad and I would highly recommend switching in that direction, not vice versa. Proton was unreliable for me for starters. And Mullvad requires no personal info—not even an email address—and you can pay in cash. Mullvad “just works” for me, whereas I had connectivity issues with Proton semi-regularly. You may also have more privacy/political concerns with Proton e.g. them handing over a French climate activist to the police, or some people take issue with the CEO’s comments on Trump. Mullvad has no such incidents like the former, and I’m not aware of Mullvad involving itself in politics beyond privacy politics.

But for piracy specifically, you may want port forwarding. I’ve heard AirVPN recommended for that reason, so if you’re looking to switch, you might want to look into that instead of Mullvad.

No, it was just on the stovetop. A long time ago so I don’t remember the details but it wasn’t in an industrial context.

I think maybe I’m sensitive to some bad smells other people don’t get. One time someone was demonstrating to a group (including me) making chocolate and it smelled like vomit to me and I had to leave. The others weren’t bothered.

This might be a personal preference thing rather than a sensing-something-undetectable thing but I’ve always hated the flavour of dairy—can’t stomach dairy milk, dairy cheese, dairy butter, etc. The vegan versions of these things are fine to me though because they don’t have that distinct “dairy” flavour whilst still having the other qualities of the product.

You could probably start a lemmy community like that and people might start using it. I’ve seen some people advertise their onlyfans on mastodon but otherwise not really seen much by way of porn on the fediverse so idk if people would use that community.

I imagine the limitation is userbase because if only eg 30 odd people use it, you probably can’t find a partner for your niche weird fetish on there.