There are some legitimate reasons to have a separate keyboard. I use Keepass2Android’s keyboard to enter passwords from Keepass. This way, there’s direct access to the password database instead of copying passwords/usernames/other fields to the system clipboard.

I’ll watch and will likely enjoy it but I don’t have any expectations it’ll be like older episodes

ProtonVPN has been solid for me. Switched to wireguard recently and have been able to completely saturate my 1gbps fiber link