Personally I do this by buying merch. If I buy a shirt from a band than not only do I get a cool shirt but the band also gets paid more in that single transaction than if I listened to their music 5000 times on spotify.
I've found the best way to check for leaks with torrenting is by using ipleak.net. They have a feature which will tell you the address it sees you torrenting from. Super handy.
Whole lotta content you got here. Shame if something happened to it.
I like how he made an edit to say no one is arguing his point and the only response he got is arguing his point and then he replies to that with no argument.
https://www.fortinos.ca/en/store-locator/details/0055 this seems to be the page for the store listed in the Matrix server description. The Matrix description really makes this seem like someone is doxxing her tbh.
For a lot of people, it's a community thing. I'm a member on Orpheus and they have a lot of great community stuff like Album of the Month, user made scripts, tutorials, forums, etc. They can also have a lot higher quality content and moderation because they're so "exclusive". And, for music, a private tracker is gonna be 100x better than a public one or Soulseek.
Soulseek and Torrent sites would be my suggestion. I'm able to seed 24/7 and would be willing to help if you want it.
Works Cited: trust me bro
Generally I've found the people who say this get privacy and secrecy confused. You close the door when you go to the bathroom because you want privacy, not because you have anything to hide. Everyone has a pretty good idea what you're doing in there but you close the door anyways. Secrecy would be if you were cooking Meth in the bathroom and wanted to keep it a secret.
i3
AwesomeWM
Qtile
XMonad (Note: never used this so take this how you will)
There're many more window managers out there but these are the ones I've personally used (besides XMonad) and know the most about.
If you don't like a built in status bar then you can disable it in the config and use another one like Polybar. Distrotube (on Odyssey or Youtube) also has really good videos on all of these window managers and more which I really recommend you check out if you haven't already.
Personally though, I think Qtile will give you the best experience.
Personally I use the torrent ip check on ipleak.net. You just add the magnet to your client and it'll fail itself and then list the ip on the site.
You can always just compile for your lower end systems on your higher end ones. I don't remember exactly the way to do this but I know it's possible