Keep in mind that in some tld’s (like .nl) the whois data actually dictates who is the legal owner of the domain. If you get into an argument with your registrar, and the whois data shows their name, you can’t take action to move it or reclaim it without their approval.
Also if you let it expire, for the cool off period, only the original owner can reactivate it, that means you can’t reactivate it through another registrar. Maybe your current registrar allows it, bit that’s a maybe.
I’m going to assume you’re in a country where they have the self checkout things which have a ‘bagging area’ of some sort wit a scale under it?
In the Netherlands we have selfcheckout without this weighing. You walk into the store, grab a handscanner, and as you walk through the store you can pick something up, scan it, put it in your own bag and continue. When you get yo the register, you scan some barcode on the screen of the register woth your scanner, touch your nfc bank card to the terminal, and walk out. No need to take anything out of your bag.
Sometimes they do random checks, then some employee comes over and scans a few items from your bag. But you can just let it be their problem. They’ll usually put the stuff they’ve taken out back in again aswell.
Personally I’ve been very happy with time4vps dot eu. I’ve used it for a few years untill I finally started using my own hardware. Their support is (was) super quick and helpfull and just generally friendly. At the time they were quite cheap as well.
How do they currently solve this problem for passwords? You could just have the register/create account button lead to a pubkey upload instead of a ‘set password’, no?
Then again, the guy giving you that remark usually doesn’t know the difference
I think unintentialy, but yes. They talk about spending. I don’t know what you usually pay for your torrents, but I don’t think it will change the number much.
Also don’t underestimate the fact that OP has a new phone and is trying stuff out. The screen is usually one of the biggest power drainers in phones, so it could be that it just isn’t a fair comparison. I wouldn’t be surprised if the phone is just unlocked and awake more in the first few weeks compared to a phone you’ve been used to.