In August, Canoo moved its headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to Justin, Texas — asking 137 of the office’s 194 employees to relocate, while cutting the remaining staff.
Yikes, not great for all those employees that moved their entire lives out to TX just to get laid off. They weren't even working in TX long enough to qualify for unemployment. Hopefully they were getting paid enough to deal with relocation and maybe have enough saved up to get the hell out of TX after this.
My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.
If you're just looking for virtual cards, could you just apply for a credit card with that capability? In the U.S. there are credit card providers that can do that, not sure about Canada but I figured it'd be the same there.
Otherwise the comment from /u/[email protected] is spot on, all the phone apps like Google Pay already virtualize your card number so you're not actually sharing your full details with the merchant. Or make your own prepaid debit card via a separate checking account you put a bit of spending money into.
I don't use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn't known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.
Of course it would be better if it was open source but he's never been an open source coder AFAIK.
On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.
qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don't have a gui to do initial setup with.
To DIY you can buy your own domain and attach it to any paid email provider, then you get an infinite amount of temporary addresses. e.g. if you own @ rumschlumpel.blahblahblah.org then you can create abc@ , xyz@ , abc123@ , etc. as much as you like.
Just about all the email provider suggestions in this thread have a paid tier that you can configure your own domain with.
Edit: why the downvotes?
Users on lemmy.world are generally very anti cryptocurrency, they're going to downvote anything discussing the topic. Just browse other cryptocurrency posts in this instance and read all the .world comments.
re: your question I suspect to truly selfhost you'd need to sync the bitcoin blockchain onto your own system and work from there, either with the official client or some other heavy wallet. Beyond that not sure, may need to script a query to your local wallet to monitor for changes to specific BTC addresses (if something doesn't already exist to do this).
So, I used to have my own VPS
Not sure if this is a requirement for you but if you are used to using your own VPS then you might be used to have root / SSH access. When browsing seedbox services you may want to double-check if their plan(s) offer that.
Easier with the model # of the Thinkpad so people can look up the specs, but working off what you posted and the pics..
and one 2.5" SSD/HDD slot
Have you tried plugging in the 2.5" SSD there & then boot into the BIOS to see what it detects? (your 3rd pic, the slot on the right looks like it could take a 2.5" SATA drive) Carefully... just as a test run - Like the other comment said there isn't a drive cage or anything there so you couldn't really run it with a 2.5" drive full-time until you can rig up something to mount it properly.
This particular Thinkpad may have only been set up for M2 drives so getting a 2.5" drive working there could be tricky, I'd just get a compatible M2 drive to install in there since you know for sure that's what the Thinkpad was configured to work with previously.
That's a tough one, if these are public torrents you may be stuck having to search for the torrents one-by-one and hope you can find their associated .torrent files to re-seed the torrents.
You do need a .torrent file, or bare minimum a magnet link to an active/non-dead swarm, to be able to re-seed torrents with existing data. Magnet links without any current peers on them are a bit useless for this task unfortunately.
If these torrents are from private trackers you can check the private tracker website(s), many of them have a feature to allow you to re-download all the .torrent files you previously downloaded from the tracker.
I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to “the highest bidder”
Debrid services do collect data, the recent RealDebrid drama seems relevant since this app is basically for use with those services
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32433831
It actually seems more private to self host Jellyfin to stream/playback already downloaded media files but that's just my own interpretation.
Just a random guess - Maybe Cloudflare is killing the connection attempts every now and then? IPT does use Cloudflare on their end. I don't have any specific experience with that but people have mentioned using things like FlareSolverr when using the *arr apps with a site behind Cloudflare.
If it's not that then maybe it's just IPT, hopefully someone else with the *arr apps set up with that tracker can give you more insight.