You need a provider (giving you access to it), some indexers (communities that catalog and link to releases) and a download client, and you're good to go. What you actually don't need is a VPN, because you're only loading from the provider and not seeding anything.
Depends mostly on what content you want to load. Public trackers are fine for popular stuff like Netflix shows or Hollywood movies in English, but you run into trouble as soon as you want more nieche things like audiobooks or movies in your native language. For that you need specialized private trackers or usenet indexers, idk which is better though. One requires invites and seeding, the other usually cost a few bugs extra, so it kinda depends what you prefer.
DDL without a debrid service is pretty bad imo, you'll constantly find things on hosters you don't have a premium accounts with. Even with a debrid service it's hit or miss, especially since links on some hosters get DMCAed very quickly. It's ok for one-off downloads every now and then, but the fact that there isn't even an option to automate the process is pretty telling.
You can test the waters and just add a debrid service as a download client to your Arr setup with RDT-Client. It works just like a regular torrent client in that case.
I think Debrid services are the easiest and safest to get started. They download files for you from various services (share hosters and torrents), and then let you download them from their servers. That means only they know your IP (but don't log it, like a VPN), and they also download with full speed from sites that require a premium account, for a fraction of the cost. With RDT-Client you can also use some of them with Arr apps, once you get to automating the process.
Another thing would be Usenet. It's surprisingly easy to set up and get started, just find a provider, some indexers, and a download client. It has a ton of good content, and it doesn't depend on seeders for file availability and high download speeds.
With those two you can download anonymously and at high speeds from all the popular sources (most share hosters, torrents, Usenet), and you don't run the risk of leaking your IP because you haven't set things up correctly.
I don't think anything is yet, because thankfully interop and decentralization are core design principles of git itself. But it does become more centralized the more parts of the workflow we move to these platforms, like project planning, reviews and build processes. We are not at the point where you can't reasonably use anything but GH, but that's definitely M$'s goal, and we're getting closer imo.
I had my DS213+ for a bit over 10 years, with no failures of any kind, just a bit of drive swapping for more storage space. Finally upgraded last year to a 4-bay with better performance and Docker support, but I would have kept using the old one otherwise.
Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
Literally no one thinks Apple will just roll over and start playing nice. That doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize and call them out for the blatant shit they keep doing.
I have a Synology NAS with 4x 12 TB Seagate IronWolf Pro drives (one drive as redundancy), as well as 2x 500 GB WD Red SN700 SSD caches. I also upgraded the RAM from 4 to 12 GB, so it can run more services in parallel without chocking. The total cost was about 1500€ for a little less than 36 TB usable disk space and imo very nice performance.
They also released a Fossify messenger and contacts app. You might have to enable or refresh the IzzyOnDroid repo to see them now, or wait until they come to the default F-Droid repo.
I just switched to using Lidarr(+Deemix)+Plexamp exclusively, and I'm really happy so far. I also scrobble to Last.fm and have a small script that imports their recommendations to Lidarr. The important bit imo is that you have to collect a lot of music you might never listen to, just so Plexamp has something to recommend and build playlists from. But once you do it works pretty much like any other music streaming service.
Imo this is not enshitification yet, but I'm concerned it could pave the way! It all depends on whether they make using your own content harder to promote this, or if it's just a side hustle to add another revenue stream.
For me personally: Something like Arch. I want to spend as little time as possible on installation and configuration, and I don't want to have to read update notes or break my system. But I get that it's great for some people, and their wiki is just next level!
In general: Ubuntu. It feels like I read something about Canonical causing trouble every other week, and don't even get me started on snaps!
I'm no fan of Ubuntu, but maintaining an LTS release and backporting security updates is actual ongoing work. Most distros don't even provide an LTS release for that reason.
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He's talking about Usenet.
You need a provider (giving you access to it), some indexers (communities that catalog and link to releases) and a download client, and you're good to go. What you actually don't need is a VPN, because you're only loading from the provider and not seeding anything.