It really does depend, so I mainly was speaking from my personal experience. But this is also why using both is recommended for *aar, because then you get the best of both worlds.

It’s understandable, sure. It’s also a little more complex up front. For me personally, the pros outweigh the cons and I’d much rather use Usenet over torrenting, even with the cost.

I definitely think it’s DMCA, unfortunately.

For indexers, I have DrunkenSlug, nzbgeek, and nzbplanet. My backbone providers are UsenetExpress, FrugalUsenet, and Giganews. You can use https://whatsmyuse.net to make sure you don’t have overlapping backbones.

The main benefit is that you don’t need to use a VPN, so you get full download speeds. Also the availability and download speed isn’t dependent on seeders, so more obscure content tends to survive longer on Usenet.

That’s not the problem here unfortunately. This is usually a complete take down on the server side, and has nothing to do with their location.

Usenet, while way better than torrenting, still requires multiple indexers and providers for this reason. I have 3 of each and rarely ever run into this issue except for very niche releases.

What benefit would a VPN give for OP’s problem?

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

This probably doesn’t help, but I use watch together by going to the individual episode and clicking it there. Of course, for a playlist or TV show that means you have to click it for every individual episode.

That’s not specific (or true) though, there are plenty of active niche communities, especially those for localities. Which communities would you like to be more active?

Be the change, become the active user

I got a NUC on ebay for about the same price, maybe a little less. Has more I/O and an SSD.

I think he’s probably a dick but his insults always crack me up.

Similarly, I started using Grayjay after paying for YouTube for years. I’ll never go back due to the significant QoL changes that Grayjay offers.

I’ve noticed the same wave hitting Mastodon as well.

Yeah, but the point of this post is to not have to replace the drives frequently in the first place. I run ZFS myself but I’m not about to buy cheap drives just because I can get away with it.

ZFS won’t save you the expense of having to replace crappy storage.

Pretty much anything “gaming” branded won’t be worth it. These days it seems to just mean “cheaper quality with RGB”.

There were people getting variable rate mortgages when fixed rates were at record lows? I guess I’ve just never understood the appeal of variable rate, either. I don’t want my mortgage to fluctuate, makes it more difficult to budget.

By stacking do you mean combining units to form a single stronger unit? If so, Civ 6 has that, albeit only up to three units.