Brickfrog

I’d recommend I2P.

But sure, you can use Tribler if you prefer just don’t set yourself to be an exit node if you’re worried about other users’ torrent traffic going out your own internet connection. Been years since I tinkered with it back then Tribler felt even slower than I2P torrenting and the Tribler torrent client would crash every few days/weeks, I sort of gave up on it after a while but maybe it’s better nowadays.

I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.

Like you said it’s mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.

Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?

Not sure if it’s exactly what you want but I’ve used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I’ve never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.

Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving “Global maximum number of connections” at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.

Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.

i know the bitcoin atm’s and banks do “know your customer” stuff (basically they id you first)

Depends on your area so make sure to double-check. Many (most?) BTMs only require KYC for larger amounts. e.g. buying $800+ might require KYC, buying less than $800 may only require text message verification. For text messages you can buy a temporary burner phone with cash, or if you’re lucky you can find a SMS service that works with the BTM - just be aware most BTMs don’t work with virtual SMS phone numbers.

Or your other option is maybe buy bitcoin via cash by mail, some crypto trading websites/platforms offer that.

Or going non crypto you could technically just purchase a pre-paid credit card with cash, you’d just need to make sure the card would work with whatever services you are subscribing to.

Cash is still more anonymous than cryptocurrency, I suppose you can ask the services you’re subscribing to if they accept cash by mail (I don’t know of any offhand).

PS - Not sure if your post is breaking rules here, this Lemmy instance is anti-cryptocurrency and does have a rule forbidding crypto shill topics. But it might be okay if you’re just asking a general question.