Using btrfs for past 6 months in my kde environment, doesn't encountered any problem like this. Pretty stable

Yes ofc. My local SLM formatted my bad grammar. btw GLUG is GNU/Linux Users Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group?wprov=sfla1

But a small VPS, setup your own wireguard instead of relying on 3rd party VPN services

Just getting exploited by every possible means.