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Thank you for the quality assurance, you may have saved my install.

Yeah but, you’re a towel.

You could get something like a 5-bay HDD enclosure that connects to the mini pc via usb, but while that’s very clean it also might be slow and/or expensive. Alternatively you could get an NVMe to 5-port sata adapter and cobble together some kind of Frankenstein pc, which is probably cheaper and maybe faster, but is certainly a hack-ier solution and who knows what the reliability is like with them. I’m sure it’ll be a fun project regardless of what you go with.

Links for reference:

https://yottamaster.com/en-au/products/yottamaster-5-bay-hard-drive-enclosure-aluminum-alloy-2-5-3-5-usb3-0-to-sata3-0-external-hdd-ssd-storage-enclosure-support-5-x-18-tb-capacity-ideal-for-enterprise-class-storage-solutionfs5u3

https://www.amazon.com.au/ChenYang-Express-Adapter-Converter-Extension/dp/B09MSZCRBV?

I do indeed use linux, on an unused laptop hidden away in my tv cabinet. I’m fairly confident it’s not spying on me… but you never know. Unfortunately you are correct, most people do just use whatever is on the TV, ignorant to the accompanying issues this causes for both themselves and society at large.

Just use a hdmi input?

Good lord, how much does electricity cost where you are? Combined with the air conditioning to keep the space livable, that would be prohibitively expensive for me

Thanks man, there are dozens of us looking for something like this!

Glances could be a good option, it’s pretty bare bones, but it covers the basics and serves my needs well enough

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

I thought Proton Mail’s free tier offered third party email client support, it just needed some kind of decryption thingy running in the background?

They’re fuckin’ nihilists dude, they don’t believe in anything

A very important distinction

All your corporate greed are belong to us

It’s like Kodi-lite, specifically for shows? It’s not for me, but cool that it’s out there

As of June 2022, more than 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. If that video is stored at 6Mb/s, a conservative estimate, that equates to about 10TB a minute. Obviously you wouldn’t want everything, but it’s still way more than the peertube network could handle in it’s current form I’m sure. I cannot fathom the amount of data that Big Datatm handles, the fact that most of the services are free makes me highly suspicious.

The Linux way, as it was written.

I’d only recommend Duolingo to dip a toe in. If after awhile you’re wanting a bit more, I’ve had a good experience with Deutsch Welle’s german course - https://learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-9528

Also Babel is excellent but pricey.

The same is true for most professions I feel

RIP giraffe woman, gone but not forgotten