No. There’s no good reason to, and a few good ones not to. Chiefly, they could reject you and make up any other reason why.

I think the point with all of these is that they are “cloud”-based. Except instead of the cloud being someone else’s computer, it’s your own. Let’s take Immich, for example. Sure I could keep all my photos on my phone. But what if I lose or break my phone? What if I have an actual camera with an SD card and I want to offload those photos? Self-hosting lets me keep a backup. I can set up a server with redundant drives that itself backs up to a server in another location with its own separate drives. Thus, I have my own safe cloud storage.

I don’t think that’s possible if they don’t have a working boot drive.

Oh I see now. You should be able to import them. Worst case is you can’t then you’re back where you are now. There shouldn’t be any data loss.

Yeah. As far as I understand it, exporting is more of a config thing. You can shut down your system asd boot it while missing drives (done this by accident) and boot while missing, and it’ll say there’s an issue with it. Shut down, pop the drives back in and you’re good to go on boot.

You can just drop in a new boot drive and install from a usb. I do recommend setting up a boot pool mirror though. This way if one goes down, you have a spare that can be used to help recover more quickly.

Do you have transcoding turned off? Sometimes it wants to play in “maximum quality” or something which is actually transcoding.

Are both your devices using Ethernet or WiFi?

This is a legit method for building small things like that where you can use the brick-like shape of the bag when it’s hardened. You just need to make sure the concrete gets soaked all the way through with a hose or rain.

https://www.core77.com/posts/80454/An-Easy-Way-to-Build-Retaining-Walls-Leave-the-Concrete-in-the-Bag-Stack-Like-Legos-Wet-With-a-Hose

They showed and talked about it in the keynote too. It’s not like this is some last minute surprise.

I can’t do timestamped links on mobile, but it’s at 6:27: https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg

"To start, we’re offering each Premium individual, as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts, 15 hours of listening per month—giving them the ability to enjoy as many titles as they want within that monthly allocation.

[…]

For those super audiophiles who use up their 15 hours before their monthly billing cycles refresh, you can purchase a 10-hour top-up to finish that series. Not sure how many hours you have left? Check it at any time in your in-app settings. "

No cost listed on how much the top-ups are.

New meds can start working right away, but it’ll take your body a little bit to get used to it.

Make sure you’re taking it as early in the day as possible. Meds are like caffeine, they’ll keep you up at night. Not to mention, taking too much melatonin or too late can keep you up instead of making it easier to sleep.

All that focus and lack of despair is good. The meds are helping you focus on things you should focus on, rather than worrying all the time.

Stick with it for a month, be conscious of the effects of the meds, and if things don’t get better, talk to your doctor.

You could accomplish this with Tasker if you wanted to dip your toes into some programming.

I guess compared to your situation, they’re fantastic. I have a static IP and copper connection, but they don’t offer any symmetric plans. I’m stuck with 200down/15up and the best up they offer is 500down/25up.

I’ve got a 1070 that I use for transcodes and some tonemapping where necessary and I don’t have GPU related issues (My ISP causes their own problems). I can usually run a few small streams at once, and I have a PC that I use to handle files too large to reliably stream to my Chromecast with Google TV over WiFi.