I tried thinking of them and started laughing. Tried a second time to be sure and it happened again. Am I doing it right?

Before even worrying about the content of individual torrents people should worry about the sites themselves being full of ads, spyware and other garbage that generates revenue for shady people. There's a reason beyond just privacy that people use rss and magnet links. In an ideal scenario you never go to an actual torrent website.

If you mean accessing them from within your LAN while your internet is down then no it won't work.

What you should be doing is either split horizon DNS (LAN resolves local IPs, public resolves public IPs) or use different DNS hostnames internally, for example media.local.yourdomain.com

You then set up a reverse proxy in your LAN and point everything to that, use a let's encrypt wildcard cert using the DNS challenge method so you can get *.yourdomain.com protected with a single cert. Since you use cloudflare you can use the cloudflare API plugin with certbot, it'll automate everything for the DNS challenge and no need to keep opening ports or configuring http/https challenges every couple of months.

If you're not using it to make money it's never not OK. I can't see it as theft. It's just a different method of obtaining the same thing that doesn't harm anyone.

Not only are those making this choice unlikely to pay anyways, but all the regular people who worked creating it already got paid so nobody can say "oh the film crew, VFX artists etc will be out of a job". No they already did their job and got paid. The investors maybe want more money but they aren't hurting for it, I don't feel anything for them.

Season 8 is the season that just started last week. There's a second episode coming out today if it isn't already.

Some sources will say there's 11 seasons because they split up some older ones for some reason but officially there is 8.

If you host the instance just for your own account to be under your control there's hardly any overhead. I'm running it in docker in a debian 12 VM with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU and 50GB virtual disk. Haven't had any issues.

A bad CEO/Company owner trickles down to everything under them in the company. They pass major decisions or budgets (or lack thereof) that work their way down to everything if not immediately then over time. Toilets not getting cleaned probably comes down to people either not getting paid or being fired to avoid having to pay them, resulting in either no custodial staff or insufficient staff. There's no way to defend him about this.

This is a good way to get a lot of people to never pay for a video game ever again, after Steam did a pretty good job convincing people not to pirate.

That's one way to kill the WWW.

I'm sure the lawyers would love it too.

If you're using memory for storage operations, especially for something like ZFS cache, then you ideally want ECC so errors are caught and corrected before they corrupt your data, as a best practice.

In the real world unless you're buying old servers off ebay that already have it installed the economics don't make sense for self hosted. The issues are so rare and you should have good backups anyways. I've never run into a problem for not using ECC, been self hosting since 2010 and have some ZFS pools nearly that old. I exclusively run on consumer stuff with the exception of HBAs and networking, never had ECC.

Monitoring for my systems, like zabbix + grafana combo I want to do it but I never do. Mostly because the resources it would use, time it would take, and impact it would have on my storage (constant writes for the database on my SSDs would probably kill them faster). Right now I already get emails from my UPS for power issues, and from my proxmox hosts for backup status and ZFS status.

I'll probably cave and do it once I add a new server to my cluster.