Likewise when theres a company meeting which clearly and simply lays something out and people have questions.

Example: “We are switching payroll providers, This in no way impacts you as all direct deposits have been migrated. You might see a new note on the deposits from the new payroll company.” A bunch of hands go up… Its always the same people

How could you possibly have a question?!

I have this controller and bluetooth mode works just fine for me on my PC and steam deck, those do run linux but the protocol is the same in windows. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

Microsoft? Fix bugs? Are we thinking of the same microsoft? Best they can do is integrate a weather app nobody asked for. And install candy crush without your consent.

Not exactly what you’ve asked for but you can download something like lidarr and plug it into your spotify recommendations and let it go. you’ll wind up with a huge library of everything you like to listen to.

It would more than likely be a stream of different colored bars representing bits or something, you would need a LOT of video to store any reasonable amount of data and have it get through youtube’s compression.

Right, the concern is that is true until it isn’t safe. Someone is going to be the first to be charged.

not sure how long ago that was but duplicati can now validate backups via checksum every time after writing somewhere

Are you able to open it to the internet and put these services behind an auth proxy? that might be the way to do it. Or if it already has login you might be able to put it behind a cloudflare WAF or similar and restrict bots and bad actors.

encrypt your data and encode it as a file. Upload it to youtube. Infinite storage!

jk dont do this. or do. it might be funny

I run arch, have the latest iphone, watch MKBHD, amd use tor… so…. yeah i dunno

Duplicati docker container works pretty well

This feels like something that should be used with a VPN. Be careful.

Unraid works this way too. Its perfectly fine as long as you keep frequent writes off it. Use ramdisk when you need scratch space.

create a separate macvlan network and have each container get its own unique IP. Its bad security practice to have it share the host network anyway.

Im pretty happy with protonmail. Email is kind of important you may not want to go with the cheapest option.

ditch torrents. usenet is still alive and kicking

That really depends, are you looking for an actual filesystem or (for real) object level storage? Does the frontend have compatibility with s3-type endpoints?

I would recommend a vpn like tailscale to encrypt traffic and not expose your local env to the internet

Here are some self-hosted s3 compatible options: https://geekflare.com/self-hosted-s3/

Although I think you might want to reconsider your architecture here. If you’re planning on self-hosting the storage for a frontend hosted on a VPS somewhere latency is probably going to make for a pretty bad experience.