The reason your laptop fans get so loud is because the fans are inside the laptop - where space is at a premium... tiny fans have to spin VERY fast to move a lot of air.

Consider a laptop "cooling pad" - it's basically a "stand" you put your laptop on that has vents and rather large fans underneath... more air flow at higher air speeds, but at slower FAN speeds means a cooler laptop with much much less noise!

Most office supply stores carry them, as does Amazon (what don't they carry?)

@teefup said in Security and safety of VPN torrenting - "couldn't establish secure connection" on NordVPN Windows client:

@bi4smooth ye i mean i have clients that have deprecated sslv3 in lieu of tls 1.2 at this point and i think there's a 1.3 so i get that part. i just am concerned with the cert attempt that almost seems like a reverse proxy. like i said idk where it came from. i scan exes and shit by hash since like 2012 and dont use antivirus and windows defender is the most i deal with. most compromises are done by people back dooring or phishing, not getting you to start some random executable these days. but in any case, im new to vpns and a bit wary even taking precaution bc i have my doubts.

I have used NORDVpn for years... Their SOCKS5 proxy systems appear to have been largely disabled, but if you're in Windows and use the App, it does a nice job of being all-but transparent.

I know from comments they've made that some staffers use NordVPN as well: raphjd and WikiDude come to mind.

If you're using the NordVPN client, then limiting your qBittorrent to the NordVPN "adapter" is a good idea, but you shouldn't need any other special setings. (ASSUMING you've already hardcoded your DNS to a system like CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1)