I’m just curious as I’ve permanently dedicated my laptop to torrenting. I’ve been too nervous to install anything but the VPN and Firefox on it. Now, I’m curious to mess around with Linux some more, which is what I use on it, but I can’t fully test out what all I can do with it without signing into accounts.
Do you use your torrent machine to do other things besides torrenting, signing into personal accounts and stuff?
I got a used mini pc to run as a media center, running the arr stack and torrent client that’s bound to the VPN interface. For usenet stuff I don’t care is it on VPN or not. Its running headless.
If you make sure that the torrent client is set to be bound on the VPN interface, you are fine, if VPN is not up, it should not start, since the interface is not up. For VPN I use wireguard and set the VPN to be brought up by via wg-quick command and use systemd to start it during boot.
You’ll be fine using it for personal stuff along with pulling stuff from high seas.
I am new to selfhosting stuff and the arr stack confuses the shit out of me. I’ve got a Proxmox cluster running services with LXCs and VMs and while I am savvy enough, the issue for me is mounting external storage to download my media from the arr stack to as I’m using 4 NUCs with anywhere from 256-512GB of storage. I am currently checking out Trash Guides.