In don’t think anyone can tell you from a photo. You need an arborist to look at it.

You can talk to the neighbor and express your concern. Ideally, have a paper trail in case something does happen.

You can have an arborist trim any branches hanging over your property without asking the neighbor.

I would get an estimate from a couple arborists for the trimming what’s over your yard. Then, approach the neighbor and offer to pay that amount towards having the whole thing trimmed—must include trimming the parts over your yard.

I wouldn’t pay until the work is done.

If you don’t know the neighbor at all and/or can’t be sure they’re trustworthy, I’d just get the part over your yard done.

Synology seems ok to me.

It’s like a memetic form of neoteny, “the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood.”

I’m waiting for the day when a politician responds to a motion on the floor with “bruh.”

Sounds like the attack bypasses the VPN entirely. It’s not a worry on your home network if you control the DHCP server. But, on public networks, where you really should always use a VPN, you can’t be sure your traffic is going through the VPN.

Maybe, you can check a trusted site like the VPN provider’s webpage to see if you’re going through the VPN. But, a really sophisticated attack could potentially route just that traffic through the VPN and everything else outside of it.

If my reading of it is correct.