What are folks' preferred TV/movie/whatever download managers on #linux these days? I'm familiar with the *arrs, but I've been out of the game for quite a while now. Is that still the best ecosystem out there?  

#CableCutters #FuckDisney

Edit: I should also maybe add that I'd be more than happy to chat on this topic over Signal if anyone wants to and doesn't feel safe chatting openly on here. Just give me a poke and I'll share my Signal code!

What are y'all using for a #vpn while #torrenting? I discovered, *after* paying for a month  , that #MullvadVPN doesn't support port forwarding anymore, which to my understanding is pretty vital for P2P traffic.

I *really* don't want to give #Proton my money, but I'm seeing complaints about #NordVPN that concern me and #AirVPN is the other one I'm seeing discussed most with a web search and I've never heard of them before. Also their website isn't currently working for me.

Now I'm reading on the Servarr wiki "For most users, secure DNS is sufficient instead of VPNs". That can't be true, right? That's not going to do *anything* to hide my IP from peers I download from or upload to...

But they do go on to recommend a couple other VPNs: TorGuard and PIA. Maybe one of these would be good instead of giving proton my money...

Ooh: "Most private trackers ban VPN usage"
If true, maybe that's why they say secure DNS is usually enough? The problem there is I have to get in to private trackers before that becomes true for me...
@chronohart I've been using PIA for like 10 years without any issues and they do support port forwarding. I use qbittorrent and found the best setup was to bind qbittorrent to the nic created for PIA. So if PIA isn't running then the nic is disabled and qbittorrent can't access the Internet at all. There is a kill switch option but this seems more reliable to me.

@the_skotts
I used PIA many years ago for a little while and they did me fine. I'm really glad to hear someone with much longer and more recent experience with them speaking positively. If I go the VPN route (instead of seedbox), I think they'll be at the top of my list.

Thanks!

@chronohart sonarr, lidarr, and radarr for tv, music and movies. Prowlarr for managing indexers. Sabnzbd for downloads from usenet and Qbittorrent for torrents.

I'm running this on a windows machine, but I believe they should all work fine on linux.