Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

What do you need VPN that port forwards for? Torrenting?

It's been a while since I used VPN to hide my server, but I know Private Internet Access has/had the ability to forward one random port. I used to have a bash script then that would check the PIA port, change the port for my application, and restart it. There is some docker application out there called PIA-qbitorrent that will run download torrents through PIA with a killswitch as well.

I download mainly through usenet, and the few times i use torrents I just do it without VPN (Doesn't seem like norway cares that much vOv)

My setup is a homeserver with wireguard vpn configured, and im renting the cheapest docker linux VM from hetzner. On that VM I run swag (the letsencrypt/reverse proxy thing) and wireguard together in a docker compose multi application thing. So now I don't need to expose any ports on my home network (VPN port is forwarded though), and all traffic is routed through the reverse proxy VM that I control myself, hosted in Finland (to avoid cloudflare), through the wireguard VPN connection to my server. Works pretty great.

I've used navidrome for about a month, and I really like that it just reads the audio tags instead of trying to look things up, potentially making my library look "ugly" and messy. I'm having some issues with the play:Sub app on iOS not wanting to queue songs when I swipe them, but otherwise it works fine. I've basically been using spotify since the beta, so my music library is just what I've managed to download this month.