Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.

I looked into this a few years ago. At that time, if you had a “c wire”, there were several options that would work directly with HA.

I don’t have a C Wire so that didn’t help me.

Without a c wire, I was only able to find a single option. A “Sensi” brand that could run on batteries, but wouldn’t work directly with HA. Tou had to control it though Amazon Alexa or through their app. Neither option turned out to be particularly reliable.

If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

Of course they did.

Well, there are 2 problems with banning weapons that I see

One. Weapons are dead simple to make. I can go to the hardware store and buy everything I need to make short range, single shot firearms, and this doesn’t even take into consideration how dangerous slings and sling shots can be when used as a weapon. Additionally, more than a few full auto sub-guns have been made by folks in their basements or sheds, with admittedly mixed results. Turns out that the magazine is actually the hardest part of a repeating firearm.

Functionally, it’s an impossible task. Weapons are generally the simplest of physics problems to solve. Just ignore safety and you’ve got t weapon.

Two. Lets say you succeed. Short term, what changes? A few less deaths, but overall crime goes up because the risks go down and you haven’t done anything to address the true causes of the crime in the first place.

Long term, you have even bigger problems if people from outside the community that has banned weapons, suddenly view you as weak and helpless. And this also discounts the possibility of your own community leaders suddenly deciding to attack in order to seize more power for themselves.

I grew up listening to Art Bell and still have my tinfoil hat. I believe that there are things in this universe that we don’t remotely even begin to understand. All manner of things and legends could be true at least in part.

But I’ve also grown up enough and seen enough to realize that 99% of so called supernatural or otherworldly things are either jokes, pranks, or misunderstandings of known natural phenomena. I’d hazard a guess that at least 2/3rds of the rest also have quite mundane explanations.

As for the rest, I am grateful that there are still things in this world that we still don’t understand. It makes things interesting.

Like actually use?

No, not anymore, though I do prefer to purchase media (movies, albums and the like) on physical media. It then gets ripped to digital and the originals stored against future need.

I’ve had my trust broken a few too many times.

Text editors are a really personal choice and there are a million different ones. I use either Kate or Micro. Both are great for my use.

Depends on the application. My NAS is bare metal. That box does exactly one thing and one thing only, and it’s something that is trivial to setup and maintain.

Nextcloud is running in docker (AIO image) on bare metal (Proxmox OS) to balance performance with ease of maintenance. Backups go to the NAS.

Everything else is running on in a VM which makes backups and restores simpler for me.

I didn’t. Still trying to figure out why I should care.

They still hold use up RAM even when the service is idle. I started with PIs for my home server. RAM usage was the reason I wound up switching to x86

Fetlife is the only one I can think of.

An irrelevant practice perhaps. Once you have the media and have stripped any DRM trackers aren’t generally a worry anymore, at least not from the media files. Other software on your system may be another question entirely.

Might ask around in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as to best practices, as they are generally pretty privacy oriented by necessity.

One piece of advice, backup that flash drive. Flash drives are not reliable storage.

Beyond that, I’m doing much the same thing for much the same reason. I’m a couple of terabytes ahead of you, though.

I wound up putting everything on a NAS and setting up remote access through Tailscale.

There are things I can deal with and there are things I can not. I’m not about to waste precious resources worrying about things I can’t affect. I do my part when opportunity presents, but winter is coming, and Me and Mine are not yet prepared.

If you think you can change what is coming, then by all means, but I’ve got more pressing concerns at present.

That’s fine. My filters will just continue sending them to /dev/null.

I self host a lot of different things, some public (like my Nextcloud instance) and others are only on my home network (like paperless). Basically, if I know I’m going to allow non-techy folks to access the service I’ll consider making it public, otherwise it stays on my VPN.

Setting them up was mostly just downloading their docker-compose.yaml adjusting a few variables to suit my needs and then running docker compose up -d to bring them online.

For the most part, maintaining the service consists of making backups and just pulling the new containers when it’s time to update (docker compose pull && docker compose up -d).

As for hardware, mostly it’s just old desktops I’ve repurposed into servers. I don’t generally use VPSs unless it’s something I really don’t want to go down if my home internet goes out. Right now, nothing I have is running on a VPS, but the last service would have been my Matrix server. When I couldn’t get any of my friends and family onboard with it I shut it down and started using a public Matrix server instead.

I use Forgejo for my private git repos but in all honesty, it’s massive overkill for my needs.

Hmm, you’ve noticed that too?

If you pay attention, you’ll notice a few other indicators as well.