Because you either need an announce URL or publishing your torrent to the DHT for your friends to be able to peer with you.

Seeding copyrighted material using a public announce URL or the DHT will get you in trouble in most western countries.

I’ve read somewhere Mullvad no longer offers port forwarding. Do you still manage to seed without it ?

Are you using it to seed torrents ?

Thank you for the clarification.

I’ve also read that it’s illegal in Switzerland to gather IP addresses because they are considered sensitive PII. Do you know about this, and does it protect me in any way if I use a swiss datacenter IP for seeding my torrents ?

This does not answer the question I asked. I’ve already considered a commercial VPN and I’ve ruled it out (clearly not cheaper, unless you can find a decent VPN with port forwarding that costs less than 2€/month)

I’ve considered it and ruled it out. That’s why I’m specifically asking for a VPS to install my own VPN own.

I’m really not interested in paying 5+€/month when I can build my own for a fraction of that cost

I want to use my own storage at home. I’m not gonna pay for several TB of storage on a seedbox when I already have the HDD

Thanks, I’m going to check it out

As far as I know, tailscale still requires me to set up my own exit node

Thank you. I’m definetly gonna check it out

I want to use my own storage at home. I’m not gonna pay for several TB of storage on a seedbox when I already have the HDD

KOReader is by far better than the crappy stock firmware from Kobo. While the interface is not the prettiest, it still has a lot of advantages :

• it adds the ability to browse the filesystem (how do people use an e-reader without folders ?)
• loading medium to large PDFs takes ages in kobo’s stock UI, while it’s almost instant in koreader
• there are a bunch of plugins you can add to koreader

While I really hate Kobo’s stock UI, I still recommend getting one if you like truly owning your hardware. It’s really easy to enable ssh access and then it’s just regular Linux. It’s even possible to run an X server and launch Linux graphical apps on the e-ink display (not quite usable though)

In my experience, OnlyOffice has the best compatibility with M$ Office. You should try it if you haven’t

2 years ago was already amazing for someone who tried to play CS 1.6 and trackmania using wine 18 years ago