It can be. You can use easynews without a nzb provider if you want, but it obvs works better with one!

I’ve been a happy customer for nearly two decades!

It’s just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine’s plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century

When you add a request you can select the target directory where you want the files to end up (Root Folder). If you follow the Linuxserver.io setup, you should have created a bind volume called /media for where you want your media to end up for the use of Jellyfin which you can use.

A recent-ish Intel CPU. Even the mini pc’s with a n5000/n95/n100 class CPU will make light work of transcoding nearly everything into x265 using the igpu. The most recent gen will do AV1 decode/transcode as well.

A discussion medium that both predates the internet and continues to exist on the internet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

The only permanent platform on the internet is usenet.

Hopefully Lemmy matures into something beautiful, but if not, usenet will always be there!