I always wonder why lots of the people I interact IRL with seem a bit off. This post reminded me of the exact reason
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Some of the community servers are still running on the legacy CSGO thing
They would denounce it as western propaganda then proceed to make a completely irrelevant, but in no way incorrect, critique of NATO, USA and then call you a "lib" whilst all the replies would reinforce the inside jokes of the echo chamber.
AFAIK fire sticks etc. can be installed with custom operating systems
And it's also worse
Now I'm worried about the AI being programmed to emotionally manipulate people
True. Otherwise, it would be flooded with malware
From what I've seen its not exactly easy to get upload privileges on any decent indexer
Sorry,I should have written P2P. A vpn is advisable for public tracker torrents but not necessary for private trackers. Yes torrents can/are also p2p but public trackers are, by nature, not necessarily safe to use your real IP on. With soulseek you're downloading directly from one user's computer so the risk of getting a criminal charge is basically nonexistent as far as I know. https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/qs4qud/im_new_at_soulseek_do_i_need_to_use_vpn/
By the way, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any way here
This feels at least a little bit xenophobic
If the only reason you want to use soulseek is to save money, then paying for a VPN wouldn't work out that much cheaper than Spotify premium as far as I'm aware. As you are appear rather paranoid, perhaps a modded Spotify frontend would be best.
However, a VPN isn't really necessary for soulseek as it is ptp.
But, I would actually (obviously) recommended switching to soulseek as that allows you to build your own library of lossless audio files, which then of course involves spending large sums of money on high capacity drives but is a fun hobby to have.
Literally a Spotify shilling thread