Damn, this hits hard in your mid 30s.

Wow, that was actually worth the read. Well done, glad you found the bug!

I really like Connect. Not sure if it's "the best" but it's free and does everything I need it to.

I've tried it twice now, it used 2 of my fast use tokens, and I still haven't gotten results. Just want a sad avocado looking at it's reflection in a pond.

Why add the third party? Just run an instance of wireguard on your home network and call it a day.

Excel is my daily driver for basic data analysis and graph making. For more complicated tasks I use R.

MAM is by far the best. MAM coupled with audiobookshelf is an Audible replacement.

Are you transcoding? If so, need to make sure your CPU or GPU are up to he task.

Nice job! This is the type of stuff I come here for.

Really enjoy these posts and the transparency. Hope to be able to donate a bit in the coming weeks. Keep up the good work!

Fair, lol.

I feel you. I spent a several hours learning about D&D character creation when I picked up BG3. And I spent a couple more hours crafting a back story that I used to influence my character traits. I've never played D&D before, but BG3 is the most fun I've had with a game in several years.

I've exclusively used Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr for TV/Movies/Books and audiobooks for the past several years. Combined with a few usenet indexers and a decent usenet provider these programs are fantastic (fully automated other than selecting the content and speeds often max my gig connection). It does take a bit of reading and tweaking to get it all setup but I can't recall the last time I couldn't find content.

I'm running two Lenovo Tiny PCs with the 5650ge for my kids to play minecraft and Fall Guys (can connect them to the VESA mounts on the back of the monitor). This opens up a whole new level of gaming in that micro form factor.

If you do this make sure you have a good backup solution in place. Don't be like me running a nextcloud instance on a single disk server and when the disk died I lost everything. I've since moved to a parity based backup solution.

It seems to be hit or miss. My wife and I have both had Nexus 6p, Pixel OG XL, Pixel 3a, and are currently using release day Pixel 6s. We haven't had any issues with ours.

Jennifer Hale reading To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini.

Ray Porter reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Look into snapRAID. It does parity based data protection (up to 6 I believe). It's free, opensource. I use it to run a nightly sync and scrub of ~3% of my total disk space, so in a month it scrubs everything to protect against bit rot. It then shoots me a nightly email with any errors or issues it detects. There is a learning curve, but I'm happy to provide some basic scripts for you to get it running in Windows. You can also run it on top of pooling solution such as Drivepool.

No need for VPN, but keep the SSL on SABnzbd. At some point I should probably switch over from nzbget, but it's been solid for years.

Gdit, I would argue with you if my bullet ranking wasn't 600 points higher on Lichess.