Ive been wanting to make my own home media server for a bit now along with doing some other things, but how do i do it can i use any tech device as a media server, do i buy a bunch of dvds and digitize them. what exactly are the steps that need to be taken?
Truth be told, doing it legally will only make it harder and harder to get media. Mullvad VPN (https://mullvad.net ) is only 5€ (~5.4$) monthly and you can quite literally mail them the physical dollars to pay for the VPN if you don’t have card.
Is Mullvad still a valid option with no port forwarding? I guess if you’re only on public trackers and don’t care about seeding it’s probably fine.
You “can” run torrent without port forward, you get a lot less friction running with one, even on public.
privateinternetaccess has a handfull of nodes that allow port forward, they also have one in switzerland that allows socks proxy.
To add, running without portforward lowers the amount of discoverable peers quite a bit, which usually results in a much lower download speed.
yeah that’s the why part of the friction