The free downloads are slow, but as books are usually small, it is perfectly usable without donating.

GrapheneOS supports disabling Wifi and Bluetooth after some inactivity.

I think it’s also possible to do this with the apps Tasker or Automate, but I’m not sure how much they are able to do and how privacy friendly they are.

It is “Pump Up The Jam”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI

The advantage of FreeTube is that if it doesn’t work, it can use an Invidious instance as a fallback.

If you mean the work profile:

1. The VPN does not apply to the work profile, i think the app that creates it needs to define a proxy or VPN, otherwise it’s a direct connection.

2. I think you can’t easily set up a VPN in the work profile, but I never tried it. If you used Instagram with a VPN up until this point, it might be good to continue using it. If you didn’t, don’t start now if you will stop using Instagram soon anyway.

3. You can “mount”/give permission to read specific folders of the main or work profile on the other one. It’s read-only. For example WhatsApp has an option to switch the image selection to the main profile when sending an image.

It’s better to use a custom domain or no alias at all for important personal stuff, but if your goal isn’t to be unidentifiable by the organization, then you can safely use your own name in the adresses. You will still have the advantage of spam control.

One downside I can think of is that the (government) organization will know that you use a particular aliasing service, which may be problematic in some situations.

That’s why you use a VPN/proxy everytime everywhere, not to sound too paranoid.

Do you have a firewall on 192.168.43.87 that may be blocking external connections?

Based on your previous posts I assume that you use Windows as your server OS. I am sadly unable to help you with OS-level issues on Windows. I am also unfamiliar with the quirks of the Synology OS.

You can check if your *arr-apps run as the same user as the permissions on the share (on the *arr-server). The folder and contained files of the share on the Synology NAS should have read, write and execute (rwx) permissions for the user of the share.

Do you mean that the automatically grabbed torrent is slow in qBittorrent? The apps themselves don’t have any idea what is a popular or unpopular torrent, so it may have just grabbed an almost dead one.

You may want to check out TRaSH Guides for some good Custom formats and guides for the *arr apps.

Radarr Custom Format Tutorial

Radarr high-quality release groups

Sonarr Custom Format Tutorial

Sonarr high-quality release groups

I recommend finding some good release groups and setting them to be always preferred over others.

You need to add your *arr apps to Prowlarr. Add them in the tab “Apps” and use “Full Sync” as the sync level. If everything works, Prowlarr should add all indexers to the apps after a short while.

The *arrs automatically check for availability every 15 minutes or so. If the movie is monitored, it should have started a download already. Did you check if Prowlarr’s indexers also show up in Radarr’s indexer tab?

Did you try manually searching for the movie (interactive search)?

When starting an automatic search in Radarr (Search movie), in the bottom left of the sidebar should be a progress indicator. Does it say that releases were found or that a report was sent?

It may be true that you got banned for ridiculous reasons, I have no way of determining that, except by hacking your used instance and Reddit, comparing IPs and other identifiers and identifying your accounts, but that’s too much work and illegal. Or you can provide the account, but that probably won’t help much anyway, as I don’t have easy access to Reddit myself, because of different reasons.

I don’t think that everyone that gets banned is a racist/terrorist/🌈 hater hybrid. I also didn’t say that you have done that. The ToS encompass much more that just hate speech, you may have started a DDos for example, I don’t know.

Of course Reddit doesn’t just let you onto their platform again. You may have a chance to get unbanned if you talk to their support, but a permanent ban often stays permanent.

I agree with your “fuck them”, but for different reasons.

Creating a new account on Reddit is ban evasion, so it’s not a wonder that you get banned using the same IP and device as the other banned users. Personally I wonder what you did to get blacklisted on Reddit, which contains some pretty vile communities.

Getting blacklisted means that you aren’t welcome on the platform. Maybe you broke some rule in the ToS or someone at Reddit just doesn’t like you. If you think that the ban was unfounded, you have to argue with Reddit’s support or leave for another service. There are some social media networks which are very open in terms of content and behaviour.

If you use a new account because you got banned, just write your old username into the post, which isn’t hard. The fact that you use a new account isn’t the problem, but that you didn’t give us any context, such as your old username(s).

The Europeans colonised America, even when there was “no one” (in this case Europeans) there. There’s always a beginning. If you don’t want to create an instance, then join one. There are many instances which you may like, you just have to look: https://join-lemmy.org/. If you get banned from every one of them, you may want to reconsider your posting habits or leave for another social media network.

No instance and no mod has the obligation to let you participate on their instance (as long as you don’t pay them or similar, which you don’t). You are expecting random people who run an instance themselves to tolerate you, which they don’t have to. It’s just like visiting someone’s house. As long as you are inside their house, they can impose rules on you such as “no politics” or “be nice to everyone”. If you don’t follow these rules, they may throw you out. A commercial entity, such as Twitter, Reddit or Walmart won’t ban you for saying something unpopular, but they will if you hurt someone. You can’t expect a private entity to follow your rules.

Mods have all the power over their communities, that’s the same everywhere. The Fediverse has the advantage that multiple communities can exist and you can choose which to use.

You say that you get banned for “no reason”, using a new account without any history. Tell us your usernames which got banned and show us that you got banned for “no reason”. Every instance has a modlog, in which everyone can see the reasons for your ban. Using a fresh account doesn’t exactly raise your trustworthiness.

Do you think Reddit or any other social media is better than Lemmy? This network has the power of decentralisation, so if you always get banned from everywhere, create your own instance or community or search for an instance that will tolerate or accept your views and mannerisms. That is the power of the Fediverse.

You may also want to understand that the Fediverse is mostly used by inclusive and socially progressive people, which may be in conflict with your views, but I can’t check that if you use a fresh account.

The Google Pixel 4a is officially end-of-life and doesn’t get any software and security updates anymore (https://endoflife.date/pixel).

Feishin is also a good player for desktop