This is the way!

Cool to see someone pull this kind of malware apart. Interesting read.

Torrents are pretty terrible without private trackers. Since majority of free sites have no access to an API and require prowlarr/jacket to create one, a cloudflare slover to bypass bot protections and even then it’s janky.

If you use private trackers, you now have to keep seeding downloads to keep your ratio healthy, and require additional trickery to allow files to be seeded after sorting by sonarr.

Usenet is plug and play, as the indexes are built with this functionality in mind and it’s far less likely to run into malicious uploads, as there is curation occuring on the paid indexes, ie, they are insentivised to make the paying customer happy.

If it’s your own instance, with closed sign ups, shouldnt it only sync the content you subscribe too?

Have done something similar, you’ll discover the joy of have no internet while you do server maintenance, upgrades or disaster recovery and worst case, hardware failures.

Having internet and filesharing on one nic means internet will suffer while the nic is saturated.

Ensure your other VMs are adequately delayed at initial boot, as that can cause weird things that need DHCP to be available

Otherwise I never had issue running the router as a VM.