If you use yt-dlp through tor it will be worse: 403 almost every request. I don’t know if youtube treats tor exit nodes different or it’s because other people also uses that address and generates a strange behavior which youtube flags.

What’s works best for me is using my own residential ip and waiting like an hour between downloads. Throttling doesn’t seem to help.

Regarding how to torify, you can install tor with apt and it will act like a proxy. Then you can use yt-dlp proxy settings

you can configure bios for self power on at certain time and then turn the server off after finishing backup

I’ve just installed and configured it, it’s pretty easy and straightforward. But there are things that should be smoother, for instance I want to run my pipeline on a custom docker image hosted on the same forgejo oci registry and authentication it’s a nightmare