Deletecat

Do you know a better free VPN which does allow torrenting?

I don't, sorry. There are free VPNs which have been recommended in the fmhy wiki, though I don't know if they support torrenting and/or port forwarding.

Edit; just remembered about windscribe, you can torrent on the free plan, but data is very limited so might not be a good option either

After a quick glance over your post, I have some thoughts;

Free: ProtonVPN

ProtonVPN is good for torrenting on the paid plan, not the free plan. Proton doesn't allow torrenting on their free plan. They will block your connection if they detect that you are torrenting, or they will disconnect you from their VPN tunnel - exposing your real IP on the torrent.

Paid: Mullvad

Mullvad is a decent choice, though they no longer support port forwarding. ~~You are still able to download, though you won't be able to seed iirc~~

VirusTotal

The problem with a virustotal scan is that pirated software is often false flagged for malware. It's difficult to tell what is safe from what you've downloaded. It's best to download from a trusted uploader, though that doesn't always guarantee safety as they can always go rogue (As an example, FTUApps were seen as safe until one of their uploads to 1337x contained malware).

Older uploads tend to have less false positives in my experience, though it can be very easy to become complacent.

edit; score out comment about mullvad seeding, others have pointed out that it still works fine! oops

Here is the post that Daniel made claiming that he will be stepping down: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/5235-stepping-down-as-project-leader-of-grapheneos

It's also available on his twitter and mastodon iirc

Heavily modified Geeetech A10M - no longer prints in two colours but it's using better quality parts than stock

MP Mini Delta V1 - I will be going down the rabbit hole of calibration and mods for this printer at some point, it isn't great due to the areas where monoprice/malyan had cheaped out on

I'm not sure if there is another community for it, lemmy.dbzer0.com is the instance that hosts that switch pirates community as well as this one

Can someone make a switchpirates community? I miss that

Already exists: !switchpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com - although it's not really active right now

probably wasn't profitable enough to justify keeping it around

Might be a setting in your IRC client to not trust self-signed certificates, it worked for me

They also thought that FileCR was dangerous because they also got a defender alert on a download 🙃

nope

I've been playing the Sims 3 from fitgirls repack (steam release). Both my steam account and EA account are fine!

Try irc.IRCHighway.net/6697 instead, your client may not have IRCHighway in its list of servers

Ovens aren't a great idea for drying filament, especially one that's being used for food

You can use the spools box to dry the filament using the printers heated bed: https://youtu.be/WC3jvuq-uq8