Oh wow, this is literally what I’ve been waiting for.

Edit: OK, it’s not quite there yet.

Sioyek also does this

Highly recommend, esp. if you like using vim keybinds (you abviously don’t have to, but IMO it’s a fantastic feature)

Oh, absolutely. In case it wasn’t clear, I’m against chatcontrol.

They don’t actually have to enforce that though. Rather, it’s a neat trick: if you do use encrypted chats, well, you’re purposefully doing something illegal! To hide information, no less! That surely means you have more to hide, and since you’ve already broken a law, let’s investigate further!

To be clear: I’m not saying this is the intended effect. But it is a frighteningly possible one. Anyone who has reason to hide their communication (regime critical activists, opposition politicians, investigative journalists,…) either have to

• accept that their communication will be scanned, making it trivial to spy on them and use that information (legally, no less!) to hinder/stop them, or
• do something illegal, giving pretext for hindering/stopping them since they’ve now committed a crime

Why not just use home-manager on arch?

Didn’t know about this, but sounds like a good cause.

Is there any legal risk involved with this? Is it recommended to run behind a VPN?

• Windows (family PC)
• a BUNCH of Ubuntu-based distros (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio (which was awesome btw), Mint,… ) on my first own PC
• Arch for years and years and years
• NixOS

I wouldn’t count the last switch as distro hopping though. It was a calculated decision after months of deliberation and trying things out. And now that everything is set up, I am very certain that I’ll never switch to another distro again, Nix is just too good.

And usually Usenet does lend quite a bit of releases you usually see on private indexers or some publics.

Right, that’s also true.

Yes, they do!! With torrents, it just takes a single seeder to keep the torrent alive, but Usenet isn’t peer to peer - you’re downloading stuff from a centralized server(s), and they simply cannot keep everything alive forever.

IMO it’s fine though. Usenet provides you with very timely access to all the “newest” stuff, in excellent, very consistent quality.

And for older stuff, there’s torrents.

I pay for one Usenet provider/indexer. I also still use tons of torrent sources.

90% of the time, stuff that I’m monitoring gets downloaded via Usenet for currently airing or rather new shows.

50% of the time when actively looking for stuff from the past 5-10 years I use Usenet, the other half is torrents

90% of stuff older than that, I only find torrents

100% of non-English stiff I get from torrents (I’m subscribed to an English Usenet indexer though, so that tracks).

In short: Why not use both?