Do you use the device you torrent on for personal things as well?

I'm just curious as I've permanently dedicated my laptop to torrenting. I've been too nervous to install anything but the VPN and Firefox on it. Now, I'm curious to mess around with Linux some more, which is what I use on it, but I can't fully test out what all I can do with it without signing into accounts.

Do you use your torrent machine to do other things besides torrenting, signing into personal accounts and stuff?

FractalsInfinite ,

Yep, since I mostly pirate obscure games I don't need to worry about the VPN. Lutris works great for fitgirl-repacks

FrostyCaveman ,

Device? All instances of torrent clients I use run in Kubernetes pods. I then access my Linux ISOs over NFS shares hooked up as PersistentVolume mounts

pineapplelover ,

Yeah, although, now that you bring it up, I might want to put it in a vm.

Nyfure ,

Not really a problem with putting other stuff on it, apart from adhering to security standards. If you want to separate your personal stuff from hosted stuff, go ahead, but just because its torrent, doesnt make it much different.
Put it in a VM if you dont have a second machine i guess.

bionicjoey , (edited )

I don't have a dedicated torrent machine. I sometimes use my phone. Sometimes my gaming PC. Sometimes my TV's PC.

originalucifer ,
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not exactly. you use an old machine like that and run it headless... throw a bunch of containers on it..

get yourself a gluetun and maybe deluge containers.. youll have a solid vpn connection, and a torrenting client that wont bleed to public. you can run all kinds of compartmentalized services fairly easily.

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