I have openwrt on my ER-X too, poor thing is relegated to glorified managed switch duties nowadays though

A solution?

You can set up a wireguard tunnel for yourself relatively easily, there are a ton of guides out there. Its basically a way for you to pop out elsewhere, same principle as a vpn. Most vpn providers use wireguard as a protocol.

If you haven’t tried dietpi on your sbc’s, try it, it is much better than the usual default, its glorious.