Ah ok. Well, as I said I lived there for years and i'm telling you they can and do block VPN traffic (not all, another commenter mentioned Astrill) quite well. To say zero success is incorrect.
Location (and peering) might be a factor, so if you/your friends lived somewhere different to I your experience may differ.
I spent years living in China. Do you really mean zero success?
OpenVPN stopped working in 2017. Deep packet inspection prevents the initial handshake. I hosted my own SS for a number of years before switching to wireguard, with more success.. however, they IP ban a majority of VPS IP ranges, so the providers Linode/DigitalOcean were messed up.
And everyone experiences VPN slow down during CPC conferences.
It can only be worse now.
I haven't. Screenshots look nice but it appears to be only on G Play and i prefer FOSS.
Jerboa is close enough to RIF for me that it's borderline perfect as is.
Not a problem in western Europe.
Where is this place where there's a need to boil water (that won't remove clay or silt)? Just wondering
LXC and USB drives will give you problems. It'd be easier to run OMV as a VM and then pass the USB through in Proxmox web UI.