Help for an absolute noob - eviltoast

Hey there, dear community, I migrated here from reddit. I wanted to dabble in piracy (Udemy and Art-Courses) for a while, but never knew how to start + a VPN is quite pricey if I don‘t use it/ use it incorrectly.

I wanted to know if there are „beginner tutorials“ for MacOS (I‘m even new in this OS).

I read the Megathread and it was kinda helpful for me not to barge in blindly, but I‘m the kind of person who needs a little handholding

  • ModularTable@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Here’s my advice:

    • Don’t torrent without a VPN, seriously!
    • +1 for Mullvad VPN, it’s privacy focused and works great!
    • Use qBittorrent, it’s the standard torrenting software that basically everyone uses nowadays. It’s lightweight and reliable.
    • Make sure to set up qBittorrent after installing it, go into settings and bind your network interface to your VPN so even if your VPN is off accidentally or gets kicked off somehow you will be safe. You can also setup the “kill-switch” functionality in most VPNs so that it kills qBittorrent if it goes off, but that’s not always 100% reliable.

    As far as Udemy courses, I’ve yet to find a good source for them myself, at least any relatively newer courses. I’ve never tried to find art courses but I’d say using a torrent search engine like Knaben or qBittorrent’s built in search functionality.

    • ZombieInDaHead@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you very much :). I see I’ll still have a lot of research to do (I’m the type of person who has no clue about stuff and just thinks…”can’t be THAT hard… spoiler: it mostly is), but thank you all for giving me a starting point.