And the cloudflare ones are broken as fuck. It varies but I often just can’t pass them. Answer it, wheel goes round and then back to having to tick it and start again. Beep boop.

If I see a cloudflare check I often just don’t bother loading the site at all.

From my shopping, there is just about none. Arguably sausages but then there are cheaper alternatives I go for instead usually. Pork shoulder is cheaper per kg than all but the lowest meat content sausages.

Typically been spending £10-15 each per week on shopping at Aldi. But it also depends on how far you go. You could say everything is paying extra if you are spending more than £2 as that could get enough rice for the week. Got several herbs growing in the garden too so it wouldn’t even be completely plain.

They don’t look like law enforcement, you should probably open fire if they try and get onto your property.

So not even close to Cheddar? Why don’t they call it Caputo instead.

2TB? How!

Currently sat on 5GB across 920 files

I like using rygel currently, just run it by command line and media folders are available over the network. Any device with VLC can see it on the network and play.

I have been using rygel. I don’t need anything fancy, dump a few media folders onto any VLC player on the LAN.

I post positive ways to avoid consumerism.

60w is like £120 a year, these costs add up to the point that low spec servers pretty much always cost more in energy than hardware. Of course it also depends on where you live and your energy rates.

You could buy a 20 year old server that is going to use 800w, or you could buy a mini PC that is probably more powerful and uses like 10-20w.

Then again, I used to live somewhere that energy was included in the rent so short of starting a bitcoin farm usage wouldn’t really get noticed too much. In that case it would make sense to just go cheap hardware.

Your energy is clearly a lot cheaper than mine then.

Oh I am not saying specifically get a raspberry pi, personally looking at a bee-link N150 mini PC. It isn’t even that much more expensive than the 16GB raspberry pi and as its x86 I can just run normal debian installs in proxmox.

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time - a server typically isn’t.

This is actually something that applies to cheap products too. Was in Asda a little while ago and saw 2 LED bulbs with the same lumen rating. Cheaper one used 3w more and you only saved £1. Running it for 8 hours a day for a year would cost double that saving in electricity. For a server you are looking at almost £2 per watt each year. Does that ewaste look so good to you now?

Some things are absolutely worth getting second hand, but you really should be careful considering the power cost as well.

Quick edit: If you don’t need it running 24/7, consider something like AWS too. I love selfhosting but if its not running much it might be cheaper to not bother buying hardware.

Does it need to?

You think the billionaire owned press is free? Some smaller independents may deserve support but that isn’t major companies.

I am sure ChatGPT can make something up for you each day

Oh no… Not the major news outlets, how ever will we cope. Let them burn.

Is anyone actually surprised at that?

Podcasts have managed on platforms that don’t even report viewer counts. Apparently they didn’t like it when it was updated so that they did.

An obvious option though is discount codes or affiliate links.

View numbers. They don’t care where people are viewing it. Which is why you can then distribute it to as many platforms as you like.

Does it have to be a home IP? I use a 4G connection behind NAT444 and it works fine without logging in. My LAN is 192.x.x.x and my router is on 10.x.x.x which is on the ISPs network, then right now on 85.x.x.x as a public IP which is clearly shared between multiple other customers.

They would do this instead of giving out IPv6 addresses…