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Qbittorrent and a VPN, I've been using Proton VPN and it's been good.
Save up for a 2 bay NAS and a couple hard drives once you cancel your subs, if you want to keep any content that is.
Plex is still a solid choice, but there's probably other self host media options now.
Jellyfin is generally what people are using now instead of Plex, including myself.
How are you personally doing remote streaming? I know some have used Tailscale/headscale, haven't looked into it much since I've been using Plex for over 10 years now...but want to slowly migrate off of it.
I want to like my jellyfin server but it has a bad habit of using 100% of my CPU while idling, and I still haven't figured out a fix yet