Options:

• Just start it from the terminal with torsocks
• Use application-specific proxy settings
• Since torsocks simply uses LD_PRELOAD, you could try to make this apply globally by adding the torsocks library to ld.so.preload. Just put the path returned by torsocks show in /etc/ld.so.preload.

Either use the --proxy option of yt-dlp, or use torsocks to transparently torify any application.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/stdany-how-when-and-why/

You can give chisel a try. It tunnels all traffic over http/https, and the client can then create port forwards, just as with ssh, to access other services.

Yes, for example, syncing on a kernel panic could lead to data corruption (which is why we don’t do that). For the same reason REISUB is not recommended anymore: The default advice for a locked-up system should be SysRq B.

Try perhaps the solution in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/648084/docker-interface-tears-down-wifi-internet

Try removing all the superfluous default routes.

You should not torrent over the tor network, but you can torrent over the I2P network. qBittorrent even has experimental I2P support built in.