I would recommend audiobookshelf for the audiobooks, especially if you have your stuff running in docker. It seemed to me like the solutions to force Plex or jellyfin to do books were a bit more hacky than I wanted.

Heeee’s got the Tome of Whisperrrs!

No clue about specific deals but I’ll share a site that I found thanks to Lemmy that had some good deals when I upgraded to an 18tb HDD for $180 USD.

https://serverpartdeals.com/

Got an 18tb from serverpartdeals for 160 I think.

The politics are shit but hot damn is it cheap.

YAMS.

https://yams.media/

Not perfect, but if you just want the ding dang thing to start so you can see what a working setup looks like, then bam. Use yams.

I just received a nice Sprite Pro direct drive extruder and all metal hotend for my Ender 3V2. Spend a night ripping the thing apart and transplanting the new stuff in. Change some settings, tram the bed in, pid tune; all the things.

About to load some filament and do a test print when I hear twang… “Wtf”.

Look over at the printer… and the x axis belt had snapped.

Now I get to stare at it for a week.

Feeling the pain my guy.