Not at all! Using the one provided by LinuxServer.io, found here

Nope! My deluge server is hosted in a docker network with gluetun, and I access it from both thin clients and the web interface.

I’m a much bigger fan of the deluge thin client, personally.

I disagree with this as a default, but think it might be a good idea as something users could toggle.

If you’re happy with Racknerd, they have deals on LEB all the time. Right now, even

https://lowendbox.com/blog/kvm-vps-specials-by-racknerd-from-12-88-year-in-new-york-seattle-san-jose-and-ashburn/

As the other user said, they removed support for port forwarding. They are my #1 pick for anyone where that is not a concern.

I have no experience with Windscribe other than that I recall looking into them when I was personally looking to replace Mullvad.

All I can offer is that their pricing is pretty much on par with ProtonVPN, who I have found to be very solid.

Proton also has a free tier, though I’m not sure how well P2P works on it.

Uh… What?

GPU you are converting from 265 to 264 and expecting smaller file sizes, but CPU you are going from 264 to 265?

If compression methods/codecs are equal, the hardware shouldn’t affect compression

You can seed without port forwarding

difficult and/or illegal.

I don’t think using a VPN gets you out of the illegal part, lol.

That was a rephrasing of the statement, not an answer to the question. He’s asking why it matters. What is the “good measure”?

What makes Debian a pain to use on servers?

I can’t find the video, but I remember someone at Ableton said they pretty much had the same view of Live piracy. If someone pirates it, they weren’t willing to spend the money on it, but perhaps they will be willing to in the future.

Not sure that transmission supports it, but other torrent clients (qbitorrent, deluge) allow binding the torrent client to your VPN interface. That way, you literally can’t torrent on anything but your VPN connection (even if a killswitch fails/the VPN isn’t running)

The Jetbrains suite of IDE’s. Particularly Jetbrains Rider. The platform ~~they are all ~~ many of them are built on is open source though, and you can get free licenses for all of their products if you are using them to develop open source software!