I agree on your take, but I don’t think that “future scaling” is a concern for the most home users.

How could you tell it was secure?

Maybe he is just seeding Linux ISOs on the private trackers

Just wait 3-5 days?

Nix is a functional programming language / package manager, which allows you to build software reproducible.

For example, one developer has version 1.1 of a dependency installed and a second developer has version 1.2 of the same dependency installed. Both build the software from source and get a different result.

This can lead to “but it works on my machine” bugs. Nix mitigates this and ensures that all devs have the exact same versions and the build process produces the same output.

In theory these kind of bugs can now only happen because of hardware fault.

For game piracy this should streamline the installation process. You can just run one command and the game works and you don’t have to tinker around to find out why it does not work for you.

Use libgen

Edit: you can also check the FMHY Wiki for sources.

You could try Puppeteer, but I don’t know if you can check third party cookies.

Also I can recommend using Apache Airflow for automation. It is like a fancy crontab with a webui and email notifications, and lots of other stuff.