Thankfully the right wing party has been booted out nationally here now. The political will to ban encryption has lessened a fair bit.

The same way. I had to buy a compatible qnap replacement.

Exact same thing happened to me. Last time I'll buy qnap.

That photo of the "help me" note in the article and video, is fake as fuck.

I store the file in my Gdrive. It's synced across all my devices including my phone.