The library.

Tons of books on CD, takes minutes to rip.

They also have audio books via streaming apps and digital players (like an mp3 player with a single book). With either of those you have to do the old school record the audio though, so I avoid them u less I absolutely have to.

I also do mp3 rips of videos that are mostly just lectures, where visual isn’t critical.

Ok, so what “back doors” does it install?

Claims without evidence are just that - claims. I see nothing you’ve posted to be evidentiary.

That said, there is potential for malicious behaviour, but let’s not go off half-cocked on this.

Have you read your reply to OP?

It’s a bunch of circular repetitive answers that simply re-iterate what OP has already said.

So it sounds like an LLM response.

Hahaha, that’s the point of a password manager. If remembering worked, we wouldn’t need any of this.

Also, I have 300+ unique logins.

Pretty much every car today IS AWD - a better version of plain old 4WD. So even your analogy doesn’t work.

Yea, always keep spares of caps

Just use the OptiPlex for everything. The RPi lacks the horsepower, and storage capability.

I’m currently using a 7 year old OptiPlex SFF as a NAS, backup point, media converter, and media server. I’ve upgraded the storage drive to 8TB.

I do have another old NAS I use only to duplicate my data store locally (I keep 3 local copies of data, and a cloud backup).

The OptiPlex draws 15w at idle, about 85w when converting video. My NAS draws about 5w at idle. I initially tried serving media from the NAS, but it’s performance is frankly abysmal. Instead I run Media Monkey, Jellyfin, and another media server on the Dell, which has no problem streaming to my crappy Samsung TV (not using an app, just the crappy built-in DLNA client) It works even better with decent devices, like my phone, laptop, iPad.

Your biggest concern with that Dell is the power consumption. As I said, mine happens to draw 15w at idle - I got lucky

What are the specs on your OptiPlex? Is it a mini tower or SFF? That would help more than just telling us the model.

Depending on your sensitivity to failures (drives die) I’d get 2 data drives for the Dell and mirror them, using the current drive just for the OS.

You’ll need to direct that port for the given service in the router control panel.

For your current server you have a port forwarding for that port already. Just add a port forwarding rule for the new service.

Plus it just seems like a network cable. A bit of security obscurity.

Easier to link am article than write one myself.

I only glanced through this one, it may not be 100%,but it gets the salient points.

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/18770/the-truth-about-windows-10-spying-on-almost-everything-you-do/

The problem mostly exists on Windows Home versions, since they’re not managed by am orga izatkom. Plus during initial setup it makes it seem like a Microsoft account is required, which means MS collects a lot of activity data about you.

I only run Pro, and disable many of these unused services with tools like O&O Shutup and setting specific registry keys.

Haha, awesome.

Hell, you could pickup a used car battery and have power for a week!

Welcome to the 90’s,when this was a thing.

You can do this, but why not just mount the drive inside the case? Usually there’s plenty of connections, with space being the concern. I’ve mounted drives with a single screw to places they clearly don’t belong.

By the time you fill one drive most likely the next gen of drives will be out with a lower cost per TB anyway and you could just move all to that.

Exactly.

Honesty and transparency go a long way. If we know what’s going on, we can choose to help if we have time (say it’s for a portfolio).

These days I try to do both, but recognize it’s an on-going thing that will never be done.

Sometimes folder structure can be a challenge because of extensive metadata. Where do parts of a compilation go, for example. At least with metadata, music players can show the tracks correctly.

Plus if they’re links, how many still work?

You understand the value of risk management.

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Nah, it’s 2 different things.

I could add pictures in the shopping list app, I just don’t want them there.

Instead I slowly took pictures of everything I own. And when something new comes in, I take a pic of that. I have a folder for inventory photos.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

They don’t want to do the hard, constant work it takes to make the world a better place.

Ranting, raving, protesting are short attention-span things that make people feel like they’re doing something.

Instead of getting up every day, and cleaning up their little corner a bit more, every single day. This is what makes a difference.

Lately?

It’s all the fucking time, and it’s fucking tiresome.

And I’m American.