I also attempted a semi-successful build of Gentoo on a PPC Mac around the same time (nothing before or after that has compared in its level of nightmare).

Amen!

It’s doable. I personally run my Jellyfin instance publicly available and there’s maybe 3 people who use it regularly. With my internet connection, WAN side users are limited to about 720p but I’ve had the 3 of us all playing different media at the same time on occasion. The main limiting factors on the number of simultaneously active users is how much upload bandwidth you have and how quickly you can transcode video files. Any 10 year old box will be able to handle 1 or 2 users at a time provided it doesn’t need to do a bunch of transcoding. If your building a box, would use a 11th or 12 gen Intel or if you must go AMD, have a graphics card to handle the transcoding. The “build a box” route can probably handle 4 or 5 simultaneous users, possibly more depending on your hardware choices. The main limiting factor in that case would be your upload.

I’ve always used NameCheap. Can’t speak to their ethics, but customer support has been excellent the few times I’ve needed it.

Before I grew enough spare capacity at home to self host our family’s server, I was using MCPro hosting. It was fine and at the time, cheap. I understand they’ve been bought by Apex now though. No experience with them.

Not OP but if I had to guess, probably Turnkey File Server.

When I was first playing with NC I was using a RPi3 with an external SSD for a drive. Performance was pretty good, but as soon as I tried the same setup in a VM, the performance tanked. The only way I found to avoid the performance penalty was a manual install like it was bare metal, which I didn’t really want to do. My experience with such setups is that they tend to be brittle.

My understanding was that the performance penalty was caused by the chain of VMs. Proxmox --> Ubuntu VM --> Docker. I don’t know enough about it to say for sure.

My NextCloud is running on an old desktop that’s been repurposed into a server. The server is running Proxmox, and NC is running in docker directly on Proxmox using the nextcloud-aio image.

Found that had better performance than running it in a VM and was less headaches than the other install options.

I keep thinking about moving it to dedicated hardware, say some sort of mini pc, but it hasn’t been a high priority for me.

This may answer your question: https://www.healthline.com/health/alcohol/how-long-after-drinking-can-you-drive

Really obscure stuff can be a bit of needle in a haystack. Some places you can try are Archive.org, YouTube, Usenet, and bittorrent (I have good luck on Pirate Bay, but YMMV).

I started running into the same problem about 2 years ago. Found a company called Send in Blue ( which has since been bought and is now called Brevo). They’re a commercial mail sender but have a free tier. How long that will continue to be available, I don’t know, but for now it solves my email sending issues.

Could he? Certainly, his actions certainly seem to fit the text of the law. Will he, under this administration? <laughter> That would be an incredibly cold day in hell.

Perhaps the next administration might pursue charges, but that’s still quite unlikely.

Depends what you call tech. I’ve been looking for a salt nic vape (say 10 watts) in the 1 ohm range with a easily replaceable battery for the last year. Bonus points if it doesn’t leak to hell and gone. Haven’t had a whole lot of luck with that so far.

Pretty much any portable device with a standard type, user replaceable battery. God bless Ryobi and the other power tool companies for building weird but useful tools beyond power drills. All with replaceable batteries.

At one point I was looking for any type robust portable storage media that had reasonable storage capacity and good shelf life (2+ years), and was large enough to actually write on a label what was on it. So far the closest I’ve seen since 2005 have been the portable SSDs and the newish USB m.2 enclosures but that’s still not quite what I’m looking for. Too large and non-standardized. Gave up on it several years ago and built a publicly accessible Nextcloud server. Yes I’m an old fart, dislike cloud storage and miss the floppy, Zip and Mini-Disk storage formats. I currently have a dozen mystery jump drives sitting on my desk in a 3d printed rack with only the vaguest clue whats on any of them. Most of them so small you can’t even put a key tag on them. I hate it.

A reliable multi port (4 or more) USB-C charger that can output 65+ watts on all of its ports at the same time.

A reliable source for 100w USB-c 3.x PD cables that don’t cost an arm and a leg. Anker makes good PD cables but tops out at USB 2.whatever.

Pretty sure more would come to mind if I sat and though about it for a while, but I’ve got to head to work now.

The first one that comes to mind is the order on birthright citizenship. Most of others I’ve looked into are in the borderlands of maybe. I seem to recall LegalEagle did a video on it, but I haven’t seen it yet. Haven’t had time.

Here’s the video if you’re interested.

https://youtu.be/GBe8BgjzLwk?si=ya9RS9JApmovCOpC

Probably a little of all of the above.

Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.

I have two. One account is through Protonmail and my main email account is through Private Email. Both are paid accounts, though Proton does have a free tier if money is tight.

If you have any opinions on what’s decent from the Mini PC side of things, or where you’d trust to ask, I’m all ears as have never really looked into any before.

I couldn’t say. I don’t have much use for them. You can’t cram enough storage in them for my needs. I can say that, until recently, I didn’t often see them available used. There could be any number of reasons for that though. I have heard though that the Beelink NUCs are a bit hit or miss and often die from internal heat, but don’t know personally.

Might want to ask in !minipcs@sh.itjust.works or !minipcs@lemmy.world . If you can’t get a reply there, you could also try the Linux Unplugged or Self Hosted matrix channels here. They are generally pretty active during the (US) day.

Sounds like a solid plan.

Unless you already have a RPi available for use, I would consider basing around x86 hardware. Nothing wrong with the Raspberry Pi’s, it’s just if you need to buy hardware, there’s much more powerful computers available for similar price points. Won’t be as simple or straightforward nor as energy efficient, but if you start adding additional services, you’ll be glad for the extra RAM and processor performance that is available.

Might try Trakt. It does a pretty good job of finding things I want to watch.

Thank you!

Thank you! That got me there!