I just looked at the current offerings from Newsdemon and the deals are not nearly as sweet as the plan I’m on. I suspect that your best bet for a long-term subscription would be to wait until Black Friday, but there are plenty of providers with cheap blocks or monthly plans to play around with.

It’s been a couple years since I set it up so I couldn’t tell you what’s the best deal these days.

I use Newsdemon’s 2tb/mo plan (Black Friday deal, it’s almost free it was so cheap) and a Blocknews block for completion. I don’t have any issues with downloads being incomplete but YMMV.

Nzbgeek indexer (lifetime sub), Sabnzbd downloader, and the full *arr suite for automation, and an Emby server running on my NAS.

I’d rather pay for a decent Usenet backbone and use exclusively SSL downloads than rely on a VPN with torrents.

You don’t want a free VPN. I’d cough up for Mullvad if I was going that route.

Check out Syncthing. It works pretty painlessly.

Mostly play indie top-down retro stuff like Core Keeper, but the occasional bout of Halo MCC/Infinite, RDR2, Wasteland 3, and a few others.

If the new Battlebit release anti-cheat functions properly under Proton then I’ll be picking that up.