Just be carefully with the AUR right now No hate to the AUR but a load of old packages got compromised so do some research before installing a package.

Yeah right now mulvad is the goat for VPNs.

Backups are needed. But if you want to learn how to solve weird issue like this. This is good practice. But again make sure your files are safe.

Well it is possible with out proxy’s in theory. But theirs like only one. Still it is a good thing I2P is focused on just I2P and not mixing the normal web with it.

Yes! We need more content on I2P. Also it is free no need for VPN nonsense. Much more anonymus then VPNs as well.