I miss the local community Reddit has/had - meaning vibrant town/city subreddits. The one for my town here on Lemmy is just one dude (@ickplant you’re doing your best) but it just doesn’t have the critical mass.

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I have the same dell form factor - 3060. Love it.

I have in the past, yes. Reputable hosts and cloud providers tend to take them seriously in my experience.

I used a self-hosted Nextcloud for a while. It was pretty close to a Google drive stand in. I believe it had similar browser playback for videos