Thanks for the feedback Sayan. I wasn't aware about ISPs blocking torrents. I'll add the other way soon.

Thanks for mentioning these Arda. I was under the impression that pacman -Sy without specifying a package, only grabbed the most up-to-date version of the repositories, and the upgrade is done only if the -u flag was included in it. And yea, I did see the Arch page you mentioned, sadly I got into the habit of using -Sy which is why the -S and -Sy is used inconsistently in this blog. Need to break that habit.

Thanks Hamees