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?

Trincapinones ,

I have a dedicated machine that torrents and seeds 24/7 but for some random thing I use my main pc

lightnsfw ,

Technically yes. I have all my piracy stuff running in a VM on my desktop.

JCPhoenix ,
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I don't pirate very often anymore, but when I do, I use whatever computer I happen to be on. I just turn on a VPN and bind the torrenting client to the VPN only. This is how I've torrented for years, since the late 2000s. I've gotten a couple strikes from my ISP several years ago, but that was before I had a commercial VPN. Otherwise, I've no issues.

What are the potential security upsides of doing it on a VM/container or a dedicated machine? I can imagine some performance upsides, but that's about it.

Coasting0942 ,

This is like asking “do you own a second computer?”

AceFuzzLord ,
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Depends on the devices I have on hand. Both my laptop and have my VPN, so I am able to get my LibreOffice windows downloads and ahem other things that I am not gonna talk about.

Trilobite ,

I have a dedicated computer for torrents and I don't sign into any accounts with it, I also block torrents on my router and bind my client to my VPN seems to work out okay

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