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Nothing important goes in my email.

Yeah I mean this is why I’ve always been concerned about privacy.

The most flagrant example is the Pasco county “intelligence-led policing” where they used data acquired by databrokers and fed it into a prediction model that decided who was most likely to commit a crime, then harassed them at all hours of the day and night until they were coerced into committing a crime or they left town.

I assume ICE is doing the same sort of things.

This was always the inevitable result of all the data hoarding. Keep your data out of these databases and you just become nearly invisible to them.

Doesn’t work, in my experience.

They comply with the law to the extent that they absolutely have to.

Guys…it’s Incogni. Like incognito?

Don’t unsubscribe, just send to spam. Unsubscribe just confirms you’re a real person and you get put on a list for more spam. Spam folder achieves the same thing without sending any sort of signal back to the sender. Also if enough people flag it, it’ll go in my spam folder automatically. Thank you for your service.

Do you not sign up for any newsletters?

Ok but do you sell it? If so, I am interested. Send me details.

Do you sell Nextcloud?

Don’t really know what to say other than it works great.

Be prepared to become a sysadmin and/or lose your podcast temporarily when something goes wrong and you have to figure out how to fix it.

Bandwidth will depend on how big your podcast is and how much you want to spend. Serving audio files is pretty easy as long as you don’t have a million people trying to DL a new 5GB episode simultaneously.

If you read it on another device and your PC isn’t on, it has no way to register that.

Why not just set up a proper server?

The phrase “walled garden” pertains to the intentional exclusion of certain features based on the use of one platform. Based on that, I object to the description, but I digress.

At the end of the day it’s just Debian and you can do anything you want to do through the terminal. But it is meant to be a simplified process and you may run into roadblocks doing things that way, yes. You are pretty much limited to what’s on their (vast) catalog.

it look like kind of a walled garden?

Not at all. It’s completely open source.

The simple answer is just that it’s easy.

Yunohost makes it easy. That’s why I recommended it. It’s as simple as clicking a few buttons in the GUI.

So video transcoding is the only reason to consider Intel over AMD, then?

I don’t like to speak in absolutes but pretty much, yeah.

It’s easy enough to have Jellyfin run on a server which accesses files stored on the Synology, and have transcoding take place on the server, right?

Nothing’s ever easy in this self-hosting stuff but it should be pretty straightforward.

What considerations do I need to think about in this?

Mostly just making sure it suits your power needs while also being efficient.

For now I’m likely to keep using Synology’s reverse proxy and built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate support, unless there are good reasons to avoid that.

I mean I don’t know much about those, but I don’t see any reason to continue doing that. Yunohost automates this stuff, if that’s what you’re looking for.

Is a second-hand Intel-based mini PC likely suitable?

Yes. Or AMD.

I read one thing saying that they can have serious thermal throttling issues because they don’t have great airflow

That’s entirely dependent on the specific Mini PC, processor, cooling solution, cooling profile, etc. Most of them are fine and if you have problems you can just crank up the fan speed. Unless you absolutely need to keep it in a living space.

Is there a particular reason to look at Intel vs AMD?

The one thing Intel is better at is hardware transcoding. So if you want to run Plex, Jellyfin, etc. it might be worth getting one of those.

Bonus question: what’s a good distro to use?

Pretty much everyone uses plain old Debian.

The piece of hardware I recommend to everyone who doesn’t have crazy massive storage needs is the CWWK pocket NAS.

No, you fried your drive, by listening to CGPT. Also learn how to take a screenshot.

And how do you communicate with the Pi0?