People will say you should be afraid of the batteries exploding or venting. I’m honestly not too concerned, but be sure to check them maybe once or twice a year.

I’m more concerned with the power supply. Laptop power supplies often heat up a lot.

why does it look like bash?

1, 90 or 9 minutes, in any case it needs a speaker to be watched, and often mobile data cap when not at home.

and a fair amount of rewinds for a lot of non-native english speakers knowers

oh, I see now, sorry! from mechanical I instantly thought you mean an HDD

yeah, but for OP’s amount that’s an overkill, the drives are very expensive

unless you span multiple boxes of discs which is a pain in the ass

FTFY

with two drives (preferably different brands/age, HDD or SSD doesn’t really matter) in it using a checksumming filesystem like btrfs or ZFS so that you can do regular scrubs to verify data integrity.

an important detail here is to add the 2 disks to the filesystem in a way so that the second one does not extend the capacity, but adds parity. on ZFS, this can be done with a mirror vdev (simplest for this case) or a raidz1 vdev.

went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity

how? sorry but that does not add up to me. for the price of a 2 TB SSD you could by a much larger HDD

and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason.

both of these use SATA plugs, it should be the same

there is 0% risk until your country makes a law that prohibits any and all P2P communication. That would not only break torrents, but would thwart signal/telegram/whatsapp calls too, Jitsi meetings, probably google meet and zoom too, as all those use P2P traffic for performance.

So far there are only such laws in far east countries, and the official java I2P router is smart enough to not participate in routing when you are in such a place.
Also, I think for routing to work you need to open a port, without it that won’t be done.

as a node

• you are unable to see the contents of traffic you route thanks to layered encryption
• you wont be routing traffic to the internet (unless you specifically set it up), but only to other I2P routers

I know nothing about seedboxes, but on a computer you can point multiple torrents to the same directory. If you make it read-only, by permission or mount options or whatever, the torrent client can’t even fuck it up

you are totally right, it was created for the baby, in the name of her

I understand you. But I think what I recommend can be implemented very simply: not uploading anything anywhere. that’s really the simplest, and friends should not feel entitled to anything, because they aren’t. if they (the friends) don’t understand it, that is a people problem of selfishness

Obviously I didn’t talk about the wife’s age, but of the newborn for whom the wife has made a google account

does the USA have such a law? Honestly I would be surprised.

I’m talking with the EU in mind. Probably GDPR, but there may be other laws affecting it

wow this got to be quite long. sorry for that!

to the same note, you shouldn’t upload images of them anywhere. not facebook, not google (drive or any other service), not facebook messenger, but not even anywhere encrypted.

take the images with a regular camera, or a phone that does not give any apps storage access permissions, and have physical prints, which can be viewed every time they visit you. you will need to tell them they can’t take photos of the children nor the photo album. this has worked well forag es, they shouldn’t be so entitled to images.
if I were you, I would require all guests to leave all their phones on a shelf near the main door. It’ll not only prevent photos, but also increase quality time by them not scrolling facebook and such while there.
before you tell them this, let them know firmly that you’re not doing this for one, but for child safety and basic human rights, and that in your house it’s you who make the rules. and keep in mind, that even when you are the guest, you hold the rights to disallow making pictures of your children until they are old enough to make the decision fur themselves.

why don’t use even the private cloud services?
the reason is your relatives who you trusted, will probably download the videos, and reshare them with others through the services you wanted to avoid. also consider that most of them doesn’t have any information hygiene, they won’t even know they are doing something bad, they won’t understand and will hand-wave all your concerns away.
this is not just a technical problem, but also a people problem, which cannot be solved with tech.

if your wife does not cooperate, you won’t be able to protect your children to the level you want. of course don’t divorce over that or something, it’s not worth it, you can probably still do lots. maybe over time, going slower and you can be forming your family’s privacy habits.
but I also have to mention, I wouldn’t want to live with someone who is not intereinterested in any level about personal privacy. if you have got so far that you’re having kids, this is probably not the case for you.

as last words, don’t take this as a strong “don’t take any pictures” stance. yes, do take pictures, they’ll be very good to have later, but make sure that you can keep control over them, for your children’s safety.
and don’t get (too) mad if parents in the class will take group pictures on which they are there. that’s something else, and hopefully relatively rare. best you can do with that is teach your children about why they might not want it, the reasons you don’t want it to be uploaded to facebook and such, and that they agree on this they can request the parents to be more careful.

is it legal at all to have an email address at that age?

I was hesitant to open this post because I already know about rustdesk, but eventually I did to see the community’s opinion on it. I’m so glad that I did because this is terrible!

I think more people should hear about all of this

or neither, when cloosing open source tools worth their salt. in more and more fields such tools appear, fortunately