I’d like to spin up a Matrix instance for me and my friends on my NAS, but like you said it’s currently more involved than just getting a domain and running a compose. The space is evolving fast though and experiments like these help a lot

What local players do you use? I haven’t found a good one on Windows so I just use the default (formerly Groove Music).

You can just set your torrent program to open at startup, as long as you use your computer somewhat often you’ll be fine. Or you can look into a seedbox, it’s cheap

I got around this by just downloading some big freeleech porn packs or a couple new release shows/movies. My highest ratio item is an anime episode I downloaded minutes after release

A private tracker is a torrenting site, like TPB, but is invite-only or has some other barrier to get in. They’re usually safer and faster, bur you have to seed. Also YMMV, obscure things might either not be on there, or have few/no seeds.

I think it’s a requirement since it’s much safer than having simpler and/or reused passwords across all your accounts. Used to use LastPass and Firefox Lockwise but after various issues I’m now a happily paying user of 1password, it’s great and I’ve converted my somewhat tech illiterate family over to it. I’d try out KeePass but there’s no way I’d want to administer that for my family.

Same here. But fortunately LJ is working on a Sync for Lemmy, excited for that. I use Connect for Lemmy right now which has a similar UI