Since you already have wireguard you don't need any proxies, just set up wireguard to route through the VPS and you should be good to go.
Or you could install a proxy server on the VPS and enter those settings into qBittorrent, if you don't want to use wireguard as a default route.
They have over-pressure vents and will vent pretty violently and catch fire, but should not explode due to pressure build up.
You can run a basic model on pretty mid-range hardware, the smaller ones are only 1-2GB in size.
Duplicati or BackRest and use any S3 compatible storage such as Backblaze B2, iDrive E2, Wasabi S3, etc..
Why would that be the case?
I thought about an upgrade for a minute from my 3700X, but I realized none of the games I play or programs I use are demanding on CPU enough that it would make any real difference in my experience.
Games have kind of stalled out for me too, I haven't played a AAA game in years it feels like, and the other games I do play are not that demanding on modern hardware.
I would also need to upgrade to DDR5 RAM which is just more cost for a marginal upgrade.
Looks like around 4Mbps link speed, so great for sensors and remote monitoring/controls and that kind of thing.
Sort of in between LoRa and normal Wifi.
Garage definitely seems better suited for selfhosters and small setups, Minio is just so large and complex with specific requirements now.
Yeah that's fair.
Common cloud storage such as google drive should be pretty resilient for the average person, data stored there is replicated in multiple data centers and verified with checksums, and it provides a trashcan and versioning in case of accidental deletion.
Good backup software will just do that as part of its thing, like Restic for example.
That's why you have 2, there's no solution for long term storage that requires zero checking on things that I can think of.
At least until they start blacklisting IPs using Invidious.