Mullvad VPN offers Brave Search as a backend in their Leta search engine proxy. That way you don’t have to access Brave directly.

I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I’m very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it’s called, but I haven’t tried that yet).

Sorry I meant to say torrent client

I was incredibly stupid when writing this comment. I meant torrent client. Fixed it.

God dammit
I keep forgetting that. I didn’t really notice it, since I use a seedbox anyway, but that might be a little to much for a new user.

qBittorrent is probably the best torrent client for Windows

Mullvad is a relatively cheap and trustworthy VPN provider (they unfortunately removed port forwarding, which is important for torrenting)

AirVPN and Proton VPN are trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding

Servarr is the way to go if you want to set up a server that automates everything for you

Jellyfin is the best media server, far ahead of Plex and fully FOSS

FMHY and the Champagne Piracy Wiki have lots of valuable information

Anna’s Archive

I feel the pain

You could even set up a cron job for it, or (at least on Arch) create a Pacman hook that runs fwupdmgr every time you update your system

I don’t know, but it seems like a fun thing to try out.

https://github.com/glomatico/spotify-web-downloader

Now read your own comment and reconsider if it actually made sense to post this

You can try rclone, but their Proton Drive integration is in beta
https://rclone.org/protondrive/

Would Matrix be fine? You can find my user name in my profile.

XCP-ng is pretty cool

Is there any reason why you can’t name the provider you have in mind? Perhaps in a DM? I’m just curious ;)

This was actually meant as a suggestion for you, since you mentioned that you want to put all of your stuff, including the seedbox, onto one single cloud server (hosted by a provider that allows this), so I recommended to just get a cheap dedicated server from an actual seedbox provider.

Why should I use a piece of software that’s controlled by a corporate entity in Russia?

I just adb installed the SmartTube APK from my laptop over the network

Does F-Droid even have an Android TV client?

Champagne Piracy Wiki has a Non-Piracy section

Since you said you use NewPipe on a TV, I assume it’s some sort of Android TV? Why don’t you just use SmartTube?

I agree, i2pd is so much better than the legacy Java client, it should really become the default client for I2P.

I will eventually move to a VPS provider who doesn’t mind public torrents

There aren’t many providers where this is the case, that’s why I’m looking into getting a cheap dedicated server from an actual seedbox provider. Some have them, e.g. RapidSeedbox and seedhost.eu. RapidSeedbox dedicated servers are really expensive though.

What do you use now? AirVPN? Proton?

Ok well the ECO boxes don’t really work as a seedbox, as they’re highly limited in bandwidth. Even if I don’t download anything, I still seed the torrent for others to download it. That’s the main purpose of a seedbox I guess. Since your ECO box only really acts as a downloader anyway, wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to just get a VPN for downloading torrents, or a service like RealDebrid?

Currently on Iridium G10, I was on Gold G10 before, but ran out of storage. It’s pretty expensive though, and I’m open for better suggestions. I think the next one I’m gonna try out is AppBox. Unfortunately no XMR, but they offer other crypto currencies such as BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH and others. seedboxes.cc also seems interesting. I’m also looking into getting a dedicated server from seedhost.eu for ~30 EUR/month.

What do you use now?

I run my Pi-Hole on a dedicated Raspberry Pi. I have another Pi that runs my SSH tarpit. These are the only 2 things I keep on separate devices, the rest is containerized on my main server.

You can accomplish the same with dnscrypt-proxy and Orbital Sync for Pi-Hole. You can also run a recursive DNS server using Unbound.

Revanced is a patched version of the YouTube app, so Google could block installations of YouTube outside Google Play. I have no idea how this doesn’t violate antitrust laws, Google is a monopolistic piece of shit and seriously needs to be broken up and fined into oblivion.

I currently use GigaRapid, because they are one of the few providers that let me pay with Monero. If I find a better provider, I might switch though.

No, since they don’t act as exit nodes (they’re called outproxies in I2P), unless you specifically configure that. It’s like running a Tor middle/guard relay. I2P was specifically designed that way, so everyone can use I2P and be a node by default without causing any trouble.

Thanks for the informative reply

I know nothing about seedboxes

It’s basically just a cheap virtual server running e.g. Deluge or ruTorrent, hosted by a torrent-friendly provider in some country that doesn’t give a fuck about DMCA notices. Most don’t allow the user to access the underlying Linux system though, but mine does actually give me a root shell.

I’m gonna have to look into deploying another torrent client on the seedbox, besides my current ruTorrent installation. My provider also offers dedicated servers. They’re more expensive, but I might go with one so I can seed on the clearnet and I2P. It will probably have enough overhead CPU, RAM and bandwidth, so I can also run a Tor node and maybe IPFS.

Does anyone know of a fairly uncomplicated method to set up my seedbox, so I can seed on the clearnet and I2P at the same time, without having to store two copies of all my torrents? I already seed terrabytes of torrent data, and I don’t want to store duplicates of all that.

The new Element X is really great, but only available for iOS and Android. Unfortunately no desktop or web version.

Just don’t download any software and you’ll be fine. Sure, there are better trackers for movies, TV shows and music nowadays, but I’m still glad we have The Pirate Bay

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll definitely check that out

Ok then use a firewall like https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall (I assume that this was on Windows) to block these apps’ internet access. There are other good options like the Safing Portmaster (which also works on Linux), OpenSnitch (Linux) and LuLu or Little Snitch on macOS. There are many more options for Linux, iptables, nftables, firewalld, or ufw with a GUI like gufw.

they also add personal information to any file you generate with the softwares

In that case, I’m using a VM where there is absolutely no information about me

The Darknet Diaries podcast made a really good episode about The Pirate Bay, telling the entire story, including funny stories like the responses to these letters, and interviewing Peter Sunde, one of the 3 founders. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/