Because you either need an announce URL or publishing your torrent to the DHT for your friends to be able to peer with you.

Seeding copyrighted material using a public announce URL or the DHT will get you in trouble in most western countries.

VSCode being essentially a text editor is a perfect example of software that should not use 1GB+ of RAM

KOReader is by far better than the crappy stock firmware from Kobo. While the interface is not the prettiest, it still has a lot of advantages :

• it adds the ability to browse the filesystem (how do people use an e-reader without folders ?)
• loading medium to large PDFs takes ages in kobo’s stock UI, while it’s almost instant in koreader
• there are a bunch of plugins you can add to koreader

While I really hate Kobo’s stock UI, I still recommend getting one if you like truly owning your hardware. It’s really easy to enable ssh access and then it’s just regular Linux. It’s even possible to run an X server and launch Linux graphical apps on the e-ink display (not quite usable though)