This may not be the answer you’re looking for but Plex finally added the feature to set subtitles to be on if the audio is not in English. Previously you had to turn subtitles on for every episode individually, couldn’t even do it per show.
Are you sure you set your qbittorrent up correctly? You need to bind your network interface so it only works when connected to your VPN. It’s possible it started using your regular network if your VPN went down or maybe even if it was a higher speed, I’m not sure.
I know for mine, I noticed a couple times that all my torrents stopped seeding. I pay for mullvad annually so sometimes I forget when I need to resubscribe. But it’s a good piece of mind that if my VPN isn’t active, qbittorrent won’t seed or leech a single thing.
Try disabling your VPN on that device and see if you can still download Linux ISOs.
For Linux, this is kind of a stupid workaround but I’ve had success, add the installer as a non-steam game and run it through proton by switching to it in the “game’s” compatibility. Running it through wine has been hit or miss for me, it’ll crash or freeze up, but proton has worked pretty well so far.
Then after unpacking, install the game’s .exe as a non-steam game and run that through proton, deleting the first installer from your library