I’m on their free tier. If you don’t have a domain you need to get one, but CloudFlare does offer domain registration basically at-cost.
Because I’m on free, I can’t break down my analytics like a paid account can. i can say though that for the past 30 days my account has generated 886k requests and 47.56GB of bandwidth. I can’t tell you how much of that is nextcloud and how much is other stuff, like audiobookshelf, but hopefully this helps answer you.

Exactly why I run LMDE and not LM.

100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn’t worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.

For basic hosting of stuff+storage management, TrueNAS has a highly polished product that lets you install docker containers with ease.

They have a curated collection that includes every piece of software you mentioned, plus the ability to install dockerhub images as ‘custom’ images.

Originally I started with a single Pentium 4 with 4x1.5TB disks, and it’s grown over time. Now at home I have 2 TrueNAS machines giving me 80TB of storage, and 3 HP elitedesk Minis running proxmox for general VMs.
I also have a managed switch, which lets me pipe the raw Internet into it, and deliver it to the proxmox hosts so I can run a virtual router with high-availability.

OpenZFS, which TrueNAS uses as its primary storage filesystem, has recently gained the ability to increase existing disk arrays by adding additional disks (as opposed to replacing all disks with larger ones) and this makes it even more flexible for future growth.

I will say though, that if the machine is dated and you load up ‘all the things’ in it, you might not be impressed by performance, so be sure to manage your expectations.

I also suggest that you consider making yourself a roadmap, so that you can plan out what hardware you’ll need to implement the ‘next big thing’

Also - the steamlink you mentioned - I’m not sure what you’re chasing there exactly, but if your steam rig is already in your home, the only thing you can do to improve latency is provide Ethernet to both the streaming sender and receiver.

Good luck!

Lol, no. But Rogan in his prime is still way more capable than the average adult.

Good question. I didn’t have occasion to test it. If we assume a good herd dog is roughly equivalent to Joe Rogan in his prime, I likely would have died though, yeah.

For those wondering, Casper continued to do well, and won ‘Farm dog of the year’ in '23.
https://www.fb.org/in-the-news/usa-today-meet-casper-peoples-choice-pup-winner

I was 6’ tall in 7th grade, and no, I wasn’t held back. I’m still 6’ tall now. I didn’t do any vertical growing after the summer between 6th/7th grades.

Was your USR a courier or sportster? In my experience the couriers had better success connecting and operating at 48000+bps

It’s not FOSS, but you can use Plex for it. The PlexAmp app is very good.

We kind of do have metric inches, insofar as machinists work in 'thou’s (thousands of an inch) But that’s kind of specialist

And isn’t 1kg of water 1L? And 1L is 1000 cubic cm? So a 10x10x10 cube?

Has been for a very long time. I quit watching his video after I saw him post a thing that was going on and on about the superiority of the product in his left hand over the right, and how much faster it was and blah blah blah.
Both products were bandwidth limited by the PCI bus and there was no advantage to the expensive one he was hawking.

The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.

Jesus? The guy who was famously a carpenter?

Correct.

I find it odd that oop says they weren’t given the opportunity to verify using their work email.

…don’t you just sign up for the service with your work email to begin with?

I love having Audiobookshelf. My spouse and I have our own accounts so that we don’t trample each other’s saved progress.

Wut? I’ve got a bunch of dockerhub images running on a scale box

That’s quite interesting. I can see the benefits offered by each arrangement, curious to me that they opted to swap pin functions from 3-to-4 (as opposed to adding the extra ground on the extra pin and keeping everything else the same,) but I suppose this also ensures that things don’t ‘half-work in a weird way’ if someone uses the wrong connection method.