Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew (I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads
I “don’t like em mate, they’re not tough.” “not tough, heh alright… they fuck men.”
https://youtu.be/ecr27Q_L9l8?si=DY9g5Qt4yS5CKNQu