I have seen and read in other posts about these *arr applications, maybe I should look into it some more

I have never before used a VPN to download torrents, so I was not planning on starting that now really as I have had no issues whatsoever with the government or ISP, and here they first send you a warning and maybe then I was thinking about using a VPN. As far as I know VPN’s cost money and the whole reason I’m building this machine is to steer clear from ‘subscriptions’ and external servers so that I have everything in my own control and free of charge (or at least only hardware and energy payments)

Is there another reason for the need of VPN?