Your ISP won't ban you for visiting "piracy sites". They'll only care if they get a subpoena, which you'll only get if you're distributing copyrighted material.
For movies and tv, there's nothing better than usenet. Eweka or easynews as your provider, with nzb.su, nzbgeek, or drunkenslug as your indexer and you'll never look back. Mix that with radarr/sonarr and it's the best way to download media. Any of the indexers will be like 20-40 buck for life, and eweka/easynews are bout $40 for the year. real-debrid comes out to about $30 per year. All those sites you see that have rapidgator links and stuff like that, real-debrid turns that into an instant download. You can even use it with jdownloader which makes some of the downloads with like 50 different rapidgator links really easy to download.
What do you torrent? I set up real-debrid and usenet and literally do not use any torrent sites anymore whatsoever. Everything I download is downloaded at my max bandwidth. I'd recommend spending the money on that setup instead. VPNs are overpriced for what they offer.
I like Fedora and PopOS. I find PopOS to be the most exciting and best out of the box experience, with plenty of options for customization. Endeavour is also fantastic and considering you have lots of experience with Linux already, should be and excellent choice as well. If you want kind of a set it and forget, I can't recommend PopOS enough. Fedora for if you want to tinker and set things up to suit yourself more, and endeavour even more so.
I was excited and decided to try it out but it's very basic pdf editing like highlighting, filling in forms. You can't edit already existing information in the pdf like you can with pdf gear for example
Sorry to hear that. These types of issues are very frustrating.Something tells me it's your GPU, but CPU and RAM issues can look totally weird like this as well.
Would it be too much to remove the GPU and run videos? How often does it happen? If it's easy to reproduce, and it's not too much work, you can try removing the GPU and using onboard gfx to see if the problem persists.
Another suggestion, maybe try different drivers.
Alternatively, you could boot do a new install to a usb, install the same or different drivers or both, to see if the problem persists.
This does seem like a stability issue, either on the hardware or firmware side. It could even be as simple as reseating the GPU.
btw, do you happen to remember whenabout the first crash happened? Did it start out sporadic and grow more frequent?
It's really easy. The manufacturer's website will have a page for your motherboard, where you can download new versions of bios. They'll have instructions how to flash it. Should be as easy as downloading the bios update to a usb drive, restarting to bios and selecting the update option and pointing it to the usb drive.
It's funny that you're describing what the OSI proposes as a definition to open source as like "just a proposed definition" and what richard stallman has to say on the matter as the gospel truth. There's very clearly no consensus.
That's the thing, with usenet and real debrid, you don't seed. It's all direct downloads.