I haven’t really looked into the availability magazines, but a block account (rather than a subscription) would probably last you ages, since I assume the size of each issue would be rather small. So that would be a small onetime payment.

As for indexer I guess it depends on what you need, but there are some with free tiers.

As for complicated I don’t think Usenet is any more difficult than other methods. At least for movies/series it’s a one time setup to automate everything and then it is extremely convenient.

If that’s the correct one i can also say that from the Usenet side Drunkenslug also finds 2 entries (1080p h264; one with 4.8 another with 3.3gb). Didn’t bother downloading, but the uploads arent that old and have some grabs so should work just fine.

“TRaSH Guides” might be worth checking out. I am not aware of any script that takes care of all settingsy but if you follow their guides it should be pretty easy to set everything up correctly. I assume you’ be using docker or docker-compose