I’m using Calibre web to organise books, convert format and download metadata; and then use Kavita to read my books/comics. Works great.

“Thank you for your encouragement and seeing the real me”

Same with music. And video games. And writing books (self-publish to Amazon for pay-per-read). Content creation technology/platforms are very readily available now.

There’s more good stuff to find than ever. It’s just that it’s hard to find. There’s too much volume of content out there to sift through, and mainstream tastes have changed so it isn’t as easy to find since the stuff that’s popular really isn’t your taste. You likely liked the stuff that’s was popular back then. Look harder. Find the niche like-minded communities. Look for content related to what you already like. There are tons of new good movies, games, music, etc out now and you just need to find it. Even for news you can find the sources you like and filter out toxicity.

Synology. Although I’m sure other ready made NAS machines will probably work and be chapter if you want to explore.

Bring a whole laptop to play games? Get a Steam Deck! Or if you want a smaller form.factor then get a Retroid Pocket 6.

Other than this:

1. Learn something (language, art, etc)
2. Read something
3. Listen to podcasts
4. If it’s a private office then do a Costanza and sleep under your desk
5. Watch TV shows or movies
6. Take up knitting or crochet

I’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.

I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.

When I update I use this:

sudo apt update && \ sudo apt upgrade -y && \ sudo apt full-upgrade -y && \ flatpak update -y 2>/dev/null; \ sudo apt autoremove -y && \ sudo apt autoclean && \ sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d

During

Breasts for eyes

My work uses all browser based apps. They have Linux workstations in most areas and these are set to login and go directly to a Windows 11 server remote desktop.

You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.

What’s the downside for them?

It’s all meaningless anyway, so my purpose is to appreciate the joy of what is in front of me and enjoy my existence while it lasts.

There are so many bullshit alerts and messages and prompts and popups that come up on my work computer. I do eventually lose interest in reading them.

one of two things will happen

So both outcomes are a win in this solution.

If you over fill the tires enough, you can drive on water. If you reach 100psi, you can fly like the movie Up.

In a couple of generations all memory and signs of your existence will be wiped out anyway. Enjoying what’s in front of you now and doing the good you can for the few people you can affect is easily enough.

Considering what a serious issue it has become for young men to be drawn into the incel/manosphere; it sounds like there’s work to do here.

It’s not entirely unreasonable for someone to ask about something they’re curious about that’s completely legal. Good that he feels comfortable enough with you to talk about this. I would say it needs a deep dive into what’s going on under the layers of his mind. If I were in this situation, then I would look for a trusted man in his 20s (his cousin, your own friend, a friend’s son) to actually take him. He might fond it too scary to go on his own. I would want to engage with him and stay in the loop rather than shut this down with a “no”. Even taking him yourself is a very real possibility if you want to consider that.

Is there any other activity that he’s interested in (even of it’s something he usually does on his own like comics or gaming) that could be encouraged to find a group for? Really worthwhile to try to encourage some contact with some real boys and girls in an appropriate context.

That was my understanding, that Immich and PaperlessNGX run AI locally on your machine. That’s why the server PC sounds like a fighter jet ready to take off for hours on end when a large library is first added.

Have I been?

Not long before the global population is tied to the track and there’s no one left to pull the switch. The trolley problem has suddenly become an inescapable extinction event.