Depending on your transcoding needs you might not even need it for that.

I have a proxbox with a R5 4600G even under extreme loads the stock cooler is fine. Honestly once prox is setup you don’t need a GPU. The video output of proxmox is just a terminal (Debian) so as long as things are running normally you can do everything through the web interface even without the gpu. I do highly recommend a second GPU (either a G series CPU or a cheap GPU) if you want to try proxmox GPU passthrough. I’ve done it and can say it is extremely difficult to get working reliably with just a single GPU.

I’ll freely admit to skimming a bit but yes proxmox can run trunas inside of it. Proxmox is powerful but might be a little frustrating to learn at first. For example by default proxmox expects to use the boot drive for itself and it’s not immediately clear how to change that to use that disk for other things.

The noctua dh-15 is overkill for that cpu btw unless you’re doing an overclock which I wouldn’t recommend for server use. What’s your plans for the 1060? If using proxmox you’ll want to get one of the “G” series AMD CPUs do that proxmox binds to the apu and then you should be able to do gpu passthrough on the 1060.

M1 does not but the m1 pro does and looks fairly similar if you get the smallest size.

There’s a channel “learnlinuxtv” on YouTube that is pretty good. I haven’t looked in a while but I watched their entire course on proxmox. They also create books.

Home assistant is probably your friend with hue.

Microsoft Activation Scripts

Oh sick this will be sweet.

I prefer mullvad but I had to stop using it on my personal devices due to it getting blocked on certain networks. For my server it’s perfectly fine. They don’t offer a way to do auto pay and buying credits can be a bit weird but that’s the only thing I’d say is a minor downside.

Mozilla vpn is actually mullvad but is also about twice the price.

I didn’t authorize a random company to have access to a treasure trove of data about me so I have to lock everyone out. If data about me is being sold someone is making money off my private information. Ads can and do contain malware and consume extra data which I again never agreed to.

These are very basic arguments but I hope this helps.

I think it’s funny that Google is pushing something that only really benefits them directly and harms literally everyone else. At this point I put adblocking up there with antivirus in terms of importance.

If you want to automate look into the “Wikiarr” but to answer your question I think many of us are just data hoarders. I try to delete stuff I’ve watched but I also tend to keep stuff that I’ve had trouble finding good versions of. I am also building a large music library (currently around 200-250gb) and that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services. Most of this collection I either already owned (used to rip ipods id repair for people) or used soulseek/other tools to build.

Personally I’d replace that 10 year old drive as it’s probably limited on remaining life even if only lightly used.

Yeah I wasn’t thrilled when I heard the news. I have one maybe two domains with Google and I’m going to be shipped off to somw third party for my renewal. I haven’t checked but I’m pretty sure the domain business is being sold to one of those “build your website with us in half an hour” companies and I just cannot wait for the go-daddy like service…which I left go-daddy because of.

Adding to this, “the quality was decent” doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.