There’s NetSurf, which is really lightweight for a graphical browser. There’s also Falkon and Otter Browser. They are more capable, but use more resources.

One way to find a private tracker is to monitor /r/OpenSignups. I would suggest using the RSS feed so you can get notified of new posts. Most trackers are only open for a short time. Don’t bother with the new trackers that constantly pop up, they don’t have enough users to maintain a good ratio easily. Be sure to get into TorrentLeech next time they open signups, that’s a good general purpose tracker and it’s very easy to maintain your ratio there.

Another way is to get into MyAnonaMouse, Orpheus, or Redacted through an interview and use the invites forum to get into other trackers.

There are unofficial qBittorrent search plugins for some private trackers. If you can’t find a plugin for the tracker you want, you could always use Jackett.

Torrent Galaxy has been rather unreliable since it changed owners. I would keep an eye out for open signups on any decent private trackers.

If you buy something DRM free, you must keep an offline copy. They can take away the option to download it, but they can’t prevent you from playing the copy you already downloaded.

Even S3 cold storage is expensive when you have tens of terabytes to backup. If you pay for a year or two of that, you could have bought more hard drives to back it up on.

Reinstall using btrfs as the root files system and enable automatic snapshots. The data on your home partition will be fine, just make sure the installer doesn’t format it.

That sub was banned. There is r/OpenSignups though. You can monitor the rss feed if you don’t want to go on reddit.

If the VPN is free, then you are the product. They are collecting and selling your data. They may even be routing other peoples data through your internet connection.

They are all for torrenting. They just don’t want you running anything that uses a lot of CPU power like transcoding videos.

Tapes are how you back up large amounts of data. A small tape robot can handle petabytes.

Sometimes that works, it depends on how the server is set up. For DNS blocking, you just switch to a different DNS server or run your own DNS resolver.

It would have to be a very old version of Minecraft. The recent ones take a lot of CPU power and RAM, even without mods.

It would probably work great for something like a Quake III or Unreal Tournament server though.

Try booting from a live disk. If it works there, it’s probably an update or config change that’s causing problems.

Just press Control+Shift+U, enter the unicode value in hex, then press enter.

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

Just keep in mind that you can’t wipe the bad sectors that have been remapped. That’s unlikely to be an issue for a personal drive, but something to consider if it held particularly sensitive information.

I encrypt everything that leaves my house since it could be easily lost or stolen, but it is rather inconvenient.

If someone breaks into my house, I’ve got bigger problems than someone getting their hands on my media collection. I think it would be more likely for me to mess something up and loose access to my data than for someone to steal it.

None of the scanners on VirusTotal picked up anything. What makes you think the PDF if malicious?

You can get power strips that will sense the load on one outlet and shut all the others off if the load is below a certain amount. They are handy for shutting off those annoying standby LEDs automatically.

My laptop has been up for 123 days. It gets put in standby when it’s not in use. I should probably reboot into a new kernel soon.
My desktop gets shut down at night because it’s power hungry.
My server gets shut down about once a year for cleaning and hardware upgrades.