I live in Italy and I’m in your same situation. Never bothered with VPNs and whatnot.

Been torrenting (and eMuling) for 20+ years, never received any letters.

Of course it depends on the country you live in

Also, are you sure you actually need a VPN? Most countries don’t give a fuck about piracy.

Please note that many countries don’t give a fuck about private-use piracy, so in many cases you don’t need a VPN.

I have no idea who is she.

I don’t trust the UK either after they left the EU.

The owner of Proton is publicly a Trump supporter. Never trust a company that publicly supports Trump (e.g. Proton, StickerMule, etc.)

That’s a fun take! My year of Linux was 2007.

To be precise, longer names ending with ~1 are a backwards compatible fix for DOS programs introduced after Windows started supporting longer filenames.

Yeah. I’m also waiting for a native Ubuntu package, I don’t want to deal with Docker.

I’ve just tired installing the trial of Affinity on Linux by using a script for Lutris, and I’ve failed.

The day when Serif releases an Affinity suite for Linux I’m going to buy it asap.

In the meantime, I’ll stick to Gimp and Inkscape…

I’m also part of a private tracker and I usually keep ~200 torrents seeding. My server is not even that powerful.

I fear that OP may have misconfigured something else on his server.