Personally I think they’re useful for one thing and one thing only, a gig/night out. When you don’t want to have some kind of battery pack to recharge your vape so you have a couple disposables in your pocket, and if you lose it, shrug, it cost a couple quid.

That said, I back this ban wholeheartedly

My teenage son came out, his Muslim friend through primary and secondary school disowned him because it was against his religion to be friends with him.

Fuck all religions, every one of them

Everywhere you go

Always take the weather with you

2 things, one of which has already been said

Get an SSD and a usb cable for it. Boot off that. Be aware that not all cables are the same (have a Google for usb 3 SSD cables for home assistant before you buy one). There’s a little song and dance you have to do to boot off ext SSD but it’s not hard and doesn’t take long (Google).

That combo will eliminate the SD card issues in the future. But you also need to look into the Google Drive backup add-on. Get that for when shit goes down.

With those two things you should be all set and eliminate this ever happening again. If it does you have a backup.

I’ll be honest and say that most of my self hosted music collection was pirated or ripped from CD like 20 years ago. I put it all on an iPod back then.

I found the iPod gathering dust in a drawer when I finally got a car with a usb jack a couple years ago (yeah I’m not exactly laden with bags of cash over here) and recently pulled all that music back onto my newly set up media server.

I have a Spotify family account I’m trying to phase out with resistance from the children.

To support artists I go and see them when they tour and buy a ludicrously expensive t-shirt

Fuck Boris and what Boris thinks. He’s a sweaty fuck-knuckle riddled with bell end cheddar

It’s only just dozens, I mean it’s 2 and a bit dozen, technically correct which is the worst kind of correct

34 people from the UK according to the Torygraph. Loads

Yeah I know, I use Gluetun now, I was just answering OPs question.

I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed

Yes

I haven’t heard any news that we in the western world have moved our whole economy to war yet, but I have heard that about Russia.

So not as bad as Russia I guess.

Plex was easy enough to set up. I use plexamp on my phone but can access the Plex server via a browser, which includes my music

Douch or turd sandwich?

Either way you’re paying lots of money to watch a man sing that can’t sing. At least with NOFX he wears a tutu too

Kick back, watch it crumble

See the drowning

Watch the fall

I feel just terrible about it

That’s sarcasm, let it burn

I’m gonna make a toast when it falls apart

I’m gonna raise my glass above my heart

Then someone shouts, “That’s what they get”

For all the years of hit-and-run

For all the piss broke bands on VH-1

Where did all their money go?

Don’t we all know?

Parasitic music industry

I had a friend bring up this very topic this weekend and I replied “What would be more creepy and more likely is that the ad giants have algorithms for working out what you’ll buy that are that good that they know what you want before you do and you’re just noticing how good it is”

Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.

The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.

Great comment btw, it’s a good idea to have a list of the services you’d like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.

I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker

I see a lot of posts like this and it’s always people overthinking something they haven’t tried to do yet.

So my advice is to just do it.

You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you’ve actually done it, you can do it again.

Now, because you’re just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you’ve not gone out and done it yet.

As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.

Just do it

To be fair it IS their job to take the piss. It is just that they should be processing it instead of pumping it into rivers and such