You could add your NAS local address to not go through your VPN using advanced split tunneling on Linux.
Look at the docs from Mullvad it might help you do what you want : https://mullvad.net/en/help/split-tunneling-with-linux-advanced

Piefed is an alternative fediverse social network like Lemmy and mBin.

For additional info about not releasing anymore on play store from Catfriend1 :

I am no longer publishing this on Google Play

See detailed info about release variants and which is recommended to fit your needs.

“nel0x” has announced to continue publishing on the play store. I welcome his help and the work I think he’ll put into his mission. It’s up to you, reading this, to decide if to trust and/or support him or go with the F-Droid release channel of this app instead. You don’t know me and I don’t know him… we are all volunteers in the spirit of open source.

Yep it’d ridiculous they feign to not understand that people can’t subscribe to all services. Especially when their prices keep increasing. Netflix at beginning almost eradicated piracy for most people. It proves that problem is not people unwilling to pay…
If really they want to offer a better services then all services should unite, you would pay your monthly subscription and based on what you watched each services would get a cut.

Fully agree but :

• how long does it take to look it up online. It surely takes longer to have an answer back
• you could even ask any AI if looking it up seems too difficult
• how can you not tell yourself it’s no longer downloading, I am at 100%, I already waited a few minutes then probably it’s doing something else must be safe to stop it and look if my file is OK