He's missing the sigh() function call at the start of the main body of the loop.
That is exactly what happens. Encryption on the protocol doesn't do anything but hide what you're downloading from your ISP. It doesn't prevent someone from downloading the same torrent and matching your IP to it. That's why people recommend that you use VPNs if you're going to do this from your house.
pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.
I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.
Chatgpt is a camp for just YOLOing off into some new software. Unless it is after the knowledge cutoff it's pretty accurate about configurations and such. It makes mistakes but it'll get you started a lost faster.
In the 20 years that I've been running a home server I've never had anything more than a failed disk in the array which didn't cause any data loss.
I do have backups since it's a good practice and also because it familiarizes me with the software and processes as they change and update so my skillset is always fresh for work purposes.
ZFS array using striping and parity. Daily snapshots get backed up to another machine on the network. 2 external hard drives with mirrors of the backup rotate between my home and office weekly-ish.
I can lose 2 hard drives from the array at the same time without suffering data loss. Any accidentally deleted files can be restored from a snapshot if my house is hit by a meteor I lose maximum of 3-4 days of snapshots.
Infinity is going subscription-only in a coming update. The dev is just eating the costs until then.
There's a browser plug-in that can help you too: https://drmikecrowe.github.io/mbfcext/
And, similar site: https://ground.news
It allows you to look at a story and see all of the different sites reporting it as well as including a factuality and bias rating for the site.
yt-dlp
It supports YouTube playlists also, so you can just give it a massive playlist and let it go
Being privately owned by a person who is a video game enthusiast really helps. Gabe already has 'fuck you' money and just wants to make video games and gadgets (and, apparently, deep sea submarines!).
If Valve is ever sold it'll go the route of every other publicly traded company.
Big 'Ancient Aliens' Energy
Tabs are just bookmarks for people who can afford RAM.