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For reasons already explained by others, a self-hosted VPN for the purpose of hiding torrent traffic is kinda like getting a burner Google phone number but mentioning your real phone number in the voicemail recording. That doesn't mean a self-hosted VPN is useless, though! It would give you remote access to your home network. Take that raspberry pi you mentioned and configure it with pi-Hole for a more private DNS experience. With a self-hosted VPN, you can connect your phone to your home network remotely and get that same DNS protection. Set the laptop up as file storage that you can - after connecting to your home VPN - access from anywhere with an internet connection.
It's not a bad idea, just not the best use-case for this purpose. I personally use ProtonVPN for my bittorrent traffic, and I also have a self-hosted VPN for connecting to my home network while I'm away to access things like my NAS. Subscription services aren't inherently bad - a good VPN service is worth paying a reasonable price for.
Yeah I also use ProtonVPN but I use the free version. Which I think blocks P2P connections. It doesn't say so specifically but I've tried and it just doesn't download anything.
I guess I will have to find a way to pay a VPN. If I find one which is trusted and pretty cheap I'll try it.