Usenet is hurt a lot by takedown notices unfortunately. So lots of older popular stuff doesn’t work. That said, things like Anime or something that isn’t given a takedown seem to be on there about forever. The server speed is a benefit for sure.

If you can figure Wine out you could use PDF XChange Editor.

Ok but marketing teams and micro transactions teams to get rich have fuck all to do with k8s or clusters to run lots of data quickly over the network.

Maybe you know some magic way to provide high availability for petabytes of data pushed at hundreds of Gigabits per second to millions of simultaneous connections. But I don’t. And I work with large data volumes for research that still are a fraction of Netflix data and throughput and we’ve hit the limit of single high performance storage devices necessitating a ceph cluster for storage and availability.

I can’t speak to k8s but there are reasons you need clusters to handle absurd amounts of data with high uptime and high networking performance.

The reason the streamers are creating their own content is licensing breakdowns and copyright law. I don’t know why everyone thinks they can out Netflix the Netflix streaming service, but they also think they’ll make more money trying to do it. It’s like Amazon deciding to somehow make their delivery system better than UPS. Or cheaper.

I think it either calls into question the supposed economies of scale and core business competency theories or they’re not doing it to save money / make money at all.

I am interested in some of the features of BiglyBT, but don’t love the .sh installer for Linux - they should have rpms and debs IMO. I’m a little concerned they don’t end up in EPEL or whatever like qbittorrent is.