I would also like to add Windows Photo and Microsoft Paint. /s Please stop giving “alternatives” when these do not even closely match the featureset of a given application unless asked for advice.
Barely anybody uses all of the features, but one might be enough or the person is used to the UI. It still is not helpful and slightly unfriendly to assume the person doesn’t know what they need. Like when I ask for Excel, then I mean it. I don’t need a markdown table or the Word “Insert Table” feature.
I don’t have all the answers to this question, but mullvad with its quantum secure encryption can help.
Don’t believe the bullshit about port forwarding, torrenting works fine without it. Port forwarding is a security hole, there’s all kinds of nefarious shit someone can do to you if you enable port forwarding. People can drop things on your PC with port forwarding enabled.
Yes, I meant that while using a VPN (which is the safest and most recommended) that port forwarding doesn’t work anyway, so don’t worry about port forwarding.
Well, if you’re not in a country that cares about torrenting or related legal action, torrenting without a VPN provides faster speeds since everything isn’t being encrypted, and port forwarding can allow connections that may not occur without.
My VPN service offers a private SOCKS5 proxy w/ Auth for faster torrenting without encryption, that still masks your IP from other torrenters, but I don’t use it since there’s still a risk of my ISP seeing some traffic with unencrypted headers, and sending notices. I just stick with VPN and slower speeds.
Seeding without port forwarding is really slow IMO because often you’re seeding to someone who is mostly a seeder themselves. Most leechers have it disabled so they can’t really establish a connection in either direction between themselves AFAIK, putting extra pressure on the seeders with open ports
I moved away from using an older Pi for this because of the exact same issue 😂 as soon as you’re seeding to any quantity of leechers the thing slows to a crawl with the CPU maxed out
Also, if the newest version of photoshop on torrentgalaxy isn’t as new as the version you can download direct from adobe (as a trial you can unlock to full with a product code), you usually can still use the most recent crack on TG with the direct download from adobe. (Usually, I haven’t tested lately.)