GIVE IT TO ME I WILL TAKE IT

Mexico may very well be the next shining city on the hill.

I really like Miami Connection. It’s so cheesy, but in an endearing way.

That’s really cool!

Oh, I love skeleton watches! Beautiful!

The style, yeah, but this is a modern one.

A photo of my current watch as I’m wearing it right now.

I’ll be excited again when they give up on Snaps.

Wait, that’s not obvious?

Look, man. I have a large body. There are many folds and crevices. I’m not proud of how much effort it takes to keep myself clean, but I’m proud that I’m putting in that effort.

Yes, you have to put in different hardware. (Almost definitely the same brand, maybe even same model.) It’s inaccessible until you get that hardware and replace it. I didn’t mean permanently. A software RAID will work in any system.

I’d recommend ZFS or Btrfs over mdadm. They both have data repair if something goes wrong, and mdadm doesn’t.

Why use a hardware RAID? If your controller dies, your data is inaccessible. Software RAID with something like ZFS or Btrfs is safer.

If your concern is which motherboard will perform well, you can go with any. NAS applications are incredibly easy to run. Basically no resources required.

Your biggest issue will be narrowing it down based on port requirements. Then just go with whatever is cheapest. I’d still recommend AM4, because AM5 is still expensive af. It does mean you won’t have any upgrade path, but for what you’re doing, you shouldn’t need to upgrade ever.

If you’re planning on transcoding the media you’re serving, then you may want to think about throwing an A310 in there to handle that.

You could conceivable even just get a used desktop second hand and harvest the parts.

Bazzite runs the SteamOS interface. It’s extremely user friendly. It’s designed to look like a console.

You’re not perfect.

They don’t use it unless my dad is watching a perfectly legal sports stream in the browser. It works really well though. I have 3 of those remotes, cause I love them.

Cinnamon Toast Ken has been my latest addition. And Papa Meat, but he has a tendency to yell.

For my parents, I got a $150 N100 mini PC (tiny little thing), installed Bazzite, installed Jellyfin, and got the Pepper Jobs W10 Gyro remote. You have to configure Jellyfin to know it’s running on a TV and to accept keyboard input (the remote acts like a keyboard), but then everything works great. It’s a little over your budget, with the added remote.

No I will not do that, because the last song I heard was Kids by MGMT.