Did you find a remote option? What other tools have you used?

I could be wrong but there isn’t one.

https://giantpinkrobots.github.io/varia/

Powerful underneath. Schedule your downloads with a powerful scheduler function. Use basic authentication and import cookies from a file. Enable remote mode to control a remote aria2c instance.

This is what I’d like to do, I’m thinking maybe it’s just not in the program yet, but according to the releases it should be.

Just pirate it at that point.

Install Firefox nightly, ublock, set to open links in private. It will eat any ad, redirect, etc I’ve ever come across.

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None, I have a Vizio that shipped with non shitty firmware, only to be upgraded over time to shitty firmware.

Those are some big ass stones if a bulldozer could only move one at a time.

Ditch ghostery and replace with privacy badger.

Because if it’s just local, you can configure the static IP directly on the server/VM/whatever and bypass the router’s DHCP entirely. Just make sure to assign it an IP that’s outside of the range the router will assign and you’ll be golden.

I had no idea I could do that but totally makes sense, thanks!