Basically saying you download either Wireguard or OpenVPN (from their official websites) and download a config from airvpn, then load that config into either WG or OpenVPN depending on what you got.

1337x has roms. r/128bitbay is yuzu/ryujinx piracy subreddit.

inb4 people scream “megathread”

Get a .ca domain (assuming you’re Canadian), it’s the same price as a .com and the prices don’t change much since they’re controlled majorly by the govt.

And how ass the buffering can be at times too. I’ve switched to stremio for the family, and torrent movies I want to see offline.

• I love yts because of the small sizes. I don’t care about remuxes like the data hoarders in this community.

Only Proton should be recommended for torrenting since it has port-forwarding. I don’t know why people love suggesting these even without port-forwarding.

No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.

“Hippopotomonstroses-quippedaliophobia” hahahaha. props to whoever made that.

Yes, because their ads are served on the same server (googlevideo.com iirc) as the actual videos. Blocking that domain would block the videos too.

https://esc.sh/projects/devops-from-scratch/ is a good resource. Most questions you have (that are more specific) are easily searchable on the internet.

ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away

A couple methods include :

• Installing Wireguard on the host machine
• Reverse-proxying with a VPS
• Cloudflare zero-trust tunnel

when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead

Most services you probably won’t need a VPS to do, but off the top of my head a couple services which would be better hosted (not saying self-hosting them on your own hardware is bad) would be services which proxy a service. Example SearxNG, Invidious, Proxitok, etc. This is so that traffic can be shared among multiple users, and not linked back to your home IP.

Tutanota and mailbox.org work with Rutracker

It’s very easy to de-drm using calibre, but yeah, agreed.

I would recommend applying for MAM then, they have an extremely helpful community, and special groups for different genres of books, which have recommended me a ton of books I’ve really enjoyed.

p.s. one of the easiest private trackers to stay in, so don’t let that intimidate you!