This!
I haven't had one since an idiot roommate decided they wanted to fuck around. I fixed the problem (no more roommate).
Been 20 years now.
VPN seems a way to screw up decent performance when all you need is to stay away from public trackers.
I use Obtainium to perform the install and update directly. Might be of use if the delay with Google annoys you too.
You then just put the GitHub link into it and it handles the rest.
Do it coward!
Ironically I'm ok with this in moderation... But scalpers that charge a high price, more than materials and maybe a small fee, I dislike.
Filling a void is a service. While there a grey area, there's a balance between acceptable fee and blatant junk.
Region locking of any type I feel should be outright illegal, but I'm just a lowly pirate with bent ethics.
I think you are right on the money (heh pun).
It's one type of pirate to hoard and spread about the booty, but it takes a special form of hypocrisy to turn around and charge for hard money.
As to communities, I can't help too much there but instead offer that there actually do exist groups that effectively have created swarms that are like a private tracker but for live/on demand viewing. Think an invite group of dozens of jellyfin servers. It might be safer to work toward identifying and joining one of those, depending on your desire.
Not everyone gets to decide the first level of networking they get unfortunately. Many ISP services block by default. Many folks are in shared networks.
Many of these situations effectively block the performance of torrents.
Ideally sooner, but I support this. Hells yeah AOC!
..... Fuck!
It was one of a few stupid things and I wound up just telling him to leave.
Kinda wish it was more dramatic and/or gory, but I usually am just too tired to turn to violence.
Besides, I'd never admit to owning that chipper shredder anyway.