If it starts for real, the freedom of Android is lost.

We need to sue them 1000 times and more before they can even start this.

You are going to learn.

Do you trust them to really delete everything?

Are you kidding?

They never delete.

Harddisks are cheap.

In case of accounts, you should edit all the fields and fill them with wrong (but consistent) data while you still have the password, and then use the acc for a few days more.

If I ever saw a question that was overly specified … then it wasn’t this one for sure :)

but I would 100% verify that for your operating system of choice (which I presume is Linux), your AMD CPU can deliver hardware transcoding under Plex

How and where can this be verified? (for a not-yet-user of such a feature)

So I have looked up your board and CPU specs.

The board is probably Ok. Regarding the CPU, I found some alternatives:

5750GE with better specs in everything, especially 8 cores 16 threads, lower TDP of 35W and just a little higher price, or

5700G also at higher specs, equal TDP of 65W and half the price.

My own personal choice is something different and harder to find (only on aliexpress so far): itx board with a preinstalled 5825U at 8 cores and TDP of 15W.

them actually being cheaper because they’re extremely loud apparently

Please tell us more about your design goals and priorities.

Is noise the most important prio? Would you spend money for this goal?

How about power usage?

How about price limitations?

When looking at harddisks, there is that performance issue called “CMR or SMR” (google it). Your ST8000NT001 seem fine performance-wise as the use CMR.

Source: https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/

If you need really quiet ones, then maybe you want “desktop” harddisks. But many of them use SMR which limits their performance.

Raidz (1? - 1 disk failure tolerance)

Most guides recommend Raidz2 currently. Do you use backups?

When buying SSDs, check for the “TBW” spec.

how

Not at all. The whole world knows that by now.

Some “Feds” who haven’t lost their jobs when it was time…? /s

Is that creepy thing still alive?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV

It is the one world famous quote of him. It rhymes in French, therefore it usually remains untranslated. He declared with this sentence what historians later called absolutism.

“L’etat, c’est moi”

• Louis XIV

Thanks to Microsoft’s legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.

I like the second metaphor:

The whole neighborhood is going to hear you swearing and shouting 🤬