Hello people I recently acquired an old(er) laptop through my workplace. I was initially planning on running a Pi-hole on it but after installing it I noticed that my router is causing issues with the Pi-hole so I gave up on that idea.

Now if I were to decide on dedicating it for piracy, would I be able to do anything that isn’t viable on a general use PC that would make it less likely for these piracy activities to have legal and/or financial ramifications on me? Or would it be no different than using the PC I use for my everyday stuff?

I was wondering about something similar, like setting up a VM for it. Doesn’t really fulfill the “always on” thingy, but regarding malware etc. this should be safe, no?

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Yes, a VM is good for sandboxing too. It’s still not perfectly safe as an airgapped separate machine, things can leak out of memory/network adapters, and depending on the specs of your main PC it could lead to some performance issues. But it’s a literally free first step and a great improvement.

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Yeah. As long as you don’t make any alterations to the VM like sharing drives for example. If you had enough storage you could also make snapshots on occasion so you have a back up in the event of malware but you wouldn’t likely get malware unless you are opening the files on that VM

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