Chiming in with some post-hardware-acquisition suggestions.

Read up and learn about docker and specifically docker compose. My reverse proxy of recommendation for a beginner is Nginx Proxy Manager. Debian stable server releases are great distros for your use-case.

Use least-access thought for connecting services and networks. For example only jellyfin and jellyseer needs to be on the NPM external network definition and accessible over network, not the underlying *arr stack, VPN, and torrent containers actually searching/acquiring the data.

NPM

• proxy-network

Jellyfin

• proxy-network

Jellyseer

• proxy-network
• arr-network

Radarr

• arr-network
• torrent-network

Sonarr

• arr-network
• torrent-network

QBitTorrent

• torrent-network

Containers are addressable by container name:port if they’re within the same network so you don’t need to worry about finding a container’s specific IP address. Example: when wiring up the Sonarr service’s location in the Jellyseer UI, assuming you named the Sonarr container Sonarr you can punch in Sonarr:7777 [this is just a random port for the example] and that Sonarr will resolve to the correct local IP in their shared network (arr-network in this example).

Also on the hardware side get a GPU with hardware AV1 support (the new Intel GPUs are great and cheap for this) as that’s the go-forward video codec and you’ll save tons in power on transcoding and an absurd amount of storage space over h.264 and a decent bit over h.265. It’s also worth updating clients with hardware decoding for AV1 asap so that the server has to transcode less as well (recent fire sticks and new TVs within the last 2 years should handle this already)

Also forgive me if this is all stuff you know already but also enable only key-based ssh access kinda immediately as the amount of port sniffing you’ll get on 22 is absurd.

Every user shares one single bearer token

There’s going to come a day where China releases some statement along the lines of “The United States continues to agitate against our development, but at what cost?” and it’s going to be the happiest day of my life.

“Of course I know how AI works. I type ‘Big titty tradwife submissive elf who looks like she loves me’ into the the magic prompt box and then it gives me my BEAUTIFUL image”

Is Longvinter still available?

Wildest plan I’ve ever seen respect to the instance operators

I haven’t used it since the 1.16.5 days but it worked perfectly fine for vanilla back then and I’m sure it probably does now too.

If you have more questions after you read a bit more about it feel free to drop them here.

If you/the kids are playing vanilla look into Geyser as it allows Bedrock and Java players to play on the same server.

If it’s early release it’s a warehouse leak most likely that then gets dumped from a modded console (xci format). Some users convert xci to nsp for reasons unknown to me. Might be that switch cartridges have extra padding at the beginning/end that can be stripped to reduce file size.

Otherwise it’s just a standard dump from a modded console in either eShop (nsp) or physical (xci) format

As someone who used to write extensive notes in the margins of books digital notetaking has forever replaced physical books for me.

E-ink all the way

A couple of options worth knowing about since I don’t know/own the games:

1. A DRM free version looks like it’s available at GOG. This is probably the simplest solution to not have to worry about any potential issues
2. People seem to be reporting that the Steam version can be launched directly from the executable bypassing the launcher. If there is a Steamworks DRM check you could always use Goldberg’s steam emulator to get around that for fully offline play.

I say at the end that we’d probably immediately use those powers to revert back to better working conditions (WFH).

I can’t see any scenario where this doesn’t happen immediately and was mostly just riffing at the absurdity of thinking companies would implement these things (outside of maybe free lunches) in order to empower labor (to the company’s shareholders’ detriment) willingly.

Some things that would make me consider it:

• Free high quality lunches every day
• Transportation compensation in the form of both work time (if the office is poorly located) and monetary compensation for transportation expenses
• Management improvement plan with actions they’re taking/implementing to reduce the time they’re wasting of laborers on a day-to-day basis
• Alteration of the company structure to force a large percentage (simple majority) of ownership to workers to push back against reactionary and profit-driven anti-labor whims of shareholders
• Services/compensation that complete tasks that previously I could do during downtime at home
• Yearly inflation-pegged CoL raises that apply to every laborer in the company before salary raises are made
• Massive investment in in-office employee training programs in the form of role-based training that is chosen by laborers in that particular role/function

If every single one of these things were implemented I would then still probably leave the place for another WFH job if we didn’t use our new ownership powers to revert back to WFH immediately.