I meant in the context of the VPN. It slows down the network for everyone on one which is run by donation. For commercial companies, it incentivizes them to further lock down what users can do or what speeds they get.
liliumstar
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You can get into private trackers and trust them. Not recommended, but some do.
Generally speaking, the copyright trolls only target public trackers and DHT. There have been some instances of them making way into TL and others. Your ISP could also identify torrenting on private trackers if they wanted to, even with mitigations. In my experience and from what I hear, most ISPs do not go to these lengths.
So, there a risk doing the above. Whether or not it's worth it until you can afford a decent VPN is up to you.
Aside: Please do not use a free VPN for torrenting (or tor, for that matter). They are either like RiseUp and run on donations for people who really, really need them, or Proton which is commercial and specifically try to block or slow down the traffic. Either way, if ruins it for everyone else.
You could install a version of ffmpeg-full locally, just for your user, with a different name. I do this for x265-mod-patman-git. It's available as x265-mod and doesn't conflict with anything.
Outside of the coreutils and builtins, I use git a lot for work, school, and otherwise. I prefer the simplicity and speed over a graphical client.
btop is probably one of my favourites, really easy and nice way to visualize the system status.
Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.
I wrote this little webapp thing some time ago. It's not exactly what you asked for but is a good example.
All it does is base64 encode a link and adds the server url in front of it. When someone visits that link it will redirect them to the destination. The intent is to bypass simple link tracking / blocking in discord and other platforms.
There are also checks for known bad domains and an attempt to remove known tracking query parameters.
https://git.tsps-express.xyz/liliumstar/redir
Edit: I forgot to add it also blocks known crawlers (at least at time of writing) so that they can't just follow the 302 and figure out where it goes.
I always use veracrypt for stuff like this. You can encrypt a whole device or partition. It will appear like random data without veracrypt and your password.
You can have a second unencrypted partition with veracrypt portable or installers on it, but this is theoretically a security risk.
I've had pretty good experience with this. For the most part installing with Lutris and pointing it to the correct exe works. Generally games will not run due to actual compatability issues.
The real pain point is trying to install mods on certain engines/games where the modders assume a windows environment. Sometimes they ship precompiled binaries that will only work under specific conditions and it's hard to debug.
Neither of these are IDEs (nor is VSCode), but it'd be Zed and Neovim for me. Zed is fast and pleasant to use, but also will enshittify eventually. Debug support is in progress but not live. Neovim is fun and it's nice to be more in control of what is going on, but I haven't made the necessary progress to be productive in large projects with it yet. I was excited for Lapce but it fell short, had too many issues in a short time.
I don't know how steamos works, but if it's arch-based, can you just do pacman -Syu to update?
kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.
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You can upload potential threats to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
There are/were vulnerabilities that are zero click, but in this case I imagine they are just banking on people clicking it in this case. If you're not familiar xvideos is a porn site.
I think you are probably fine as you were running windows defender. It might be a good idea to do a manual full scan and perhaps refresh your browser.