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I bought server drives because the price/TB was lower, and I want to give you just one hint: Server drives tend to be very loud

You can also just donate! They even have merch if you want some of your money going that direction

You cannot selfhost Signal, because the regular app won’t connect to your server. You could probably bridge it to Matrix I guess? I’m pretty sure it’s a thing, but I see little benefit here, besides your phone not connecting to Signal and your messages being collected in one app, if you so desire.

Have you tried setting up rclone for cloud access and then using restic with -r “rclone:my_aws:path/to/backup”?

For any kind of storage, cloud or not, I think rclone should provide whatever you need for free (not entirely shure about metadata). You will likely want at least one script tho, since the commands can get quite long, depending on configuration.

I don’t know whether this fits your needs better, but “Ente” and “Proton” offer E2E encrypted cloud storage with the option to share parts of it via link or accounts, as well as clients that automatically sync stuff for you (Android only for Ente I think)

Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet…?

Second this. What you need for high quality media is space, not speed. For any single stream, network and drive will be fast enough anyway. Your typical HDD offers like 4-6 times the bandwidth that a regular Blu-ray can provide. You can get 8TB HDDs for the price of 2TB SSDs. Random access doesn’t matter for that application.

You might want to invest in redundancy and use a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array, depends on how valuable that media is to you or how long it would take to recover in case it’s lost. A simple solution would be a btrfs software RAID, in case your are after something like a Linux home media server with Jellyfin.

People say there is no god and there are no miracles, yet right there you see an individual that somehow lived to take this picture. Checkmate atheists

‘F-bomb’. US media is hilarious sometimes.

There is room to expand warrantless surveillance? Colour me surprised.

There are two wolves inside you: One hates US politics, the other hates TikTok.

Linux has actually become measurably more popular over the past few years, recently cracking the 3% mark (actually 7% including Chrome OS). I know, doesn’t sound like much, but keep in mind even sub-1% browser projects like Brave or Vivaldi are not only alive, but also rather well known and doing great… And Mozilla is co-defining internet standards with Firefox at 9%.

I think we can thank not only Chrome OS (which actually is a Linux desktop distro, no matter how you look at it), the Steam Deck, and finally Microsoft and Win11 for that trend lol