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Plex is a good example that does just that (not on my rec list but a good example) along with many business grade IPTV and media streaming products (think digital signage).

I'd really love to rework JF to do it, but structurally it wouldn't work, you'd need a management service in front of it.

Remember that we're talking about a server on your local network, and a device on the local network to make the connection for the stream. We aren't talking about streaming over the internet.

• Client looks up server via DNS
• Client connects to public IP
• Client handshakes to server
• Server announces to client available connections (public, local)
• Client continues connections with local address

There is no need for tailscale or anything, this is a local connection. The only thing the public address is doing is the initial call to the server.

The good ones... Are not cheap (if someone knows a cheap option though, I'd be happy to add it to my own repertoire!)

For me, I backup with:

• A second NAS
• a clone to a NAS at two other homes (family), which also sync to mine
• Encrypted backups to generic cloud storage

Edited to add:

You dont need to backup everything.

What is being backed up by me at all the locations above:

• Content I can't replace (home photos, movies, etc)
• Configs for services
• Personal documents and other such data.
• etc

Aside from the home movies, its not a huge amount of data. Lots of VHS conversions of graduations, Christmases, etc of long past.

Locally I back up more to the second NAS including:

• Content I can replace but this is faster
• Full backups of VMs
• LXC snapshots
• etc

So while I have a huge amount of storage at home, what's needed elsewhere is not anywhere near as much.

Depends on the server obviously, but most will pass off their local once the initial handshake is made.

Once that is done, DNS isnt relevant anymore.

Edit: This is especially true for media (movies, TV) servers.

Should all be local after the connection is made, as long as nothing is wonky with your setup.

Locally you should resolve that DNS to your local server though, not via cloudflare.

Used tiny/mini/micro.

Get the gen of Intel CPU you can afford purely for hw transcoding. 6th-8th gen is good, newer gets you more, even av1 becomes an option.

If you have a NAS, great, store videos there. If you dont, I'd upgrade the t/m/m with an m.2 and (config dependant) you can usually stick a 2.5" in there as well.

Proxmox for the OS, run lxc's for the individual services you want, or make a docker LXC and run them in there. Personally I just make an LXC for each service.

I'm going to need to check from my desktop, I got a thumbnail version on mobile (and I'm lazy and just save to my nas from mobile)

Edit: Looking at it on the desktop, its a few.pixels taller and about 200 wider, but no change to the contents. I'm assuming the preview in the post was a stretch for lens correction or something, the one I found was an iPhone photo

I like some flavor personally. A bit of squeezed lemon or lime is just the right fit.

Though just go an infuser bottle from a friend and fresh cucumber from the garden, so thats this weeks drink of choice!

Edit: Okay slight correction, some of the cucumbers, mint, and lavender will be made into syrups for some homemade cocktails and sodas for some summer night drinks.

This was the best I could find:

1486x1115

If anyone has a better version I'd love to get it!

Edit: This one crops nicely (just above supermans head and to the bottom of his left fist) and looks good enough on my 3440x1440 monitor, FWIW. I'll see how it looks on a 16:9 later, but I think the crop there will go to the outside arms, so also good!

Apex AD-5131 was my favorite - 3 disc changer, DVD, vcd, and svcd support. Played everything, you didnt have to swap discs, and if the vcds were done right, you may not even notice when the changer hit.

I dont necessarily miss the tech, but I do miss the ease of experience compared to so much of the nonsense today with streaming (which is why I only watch or listen from my own media servers).

The first UAV in the 1800s were incendiary balloons, Austrian attack on Venice.

A. M. Low was a pioneer in rocket guidance systems, planes, etc. In 1917 the "flying bomb" (a controlled airplane) was developed, and later developed into the Kettering Bug - a bomb with wings - which had a terrible success rate and never got used in combat. You can see a reproduction in Dayton, Ohio, at the museum for the Air Force.

Target drones (training drones for military pilots) were made by Radioplane and sold to the Army in the 1940s. That led to the SD-2 Overseer in the 1950s.

Which led to the Lightning Bug, based on target drone designs, used to monitor the Chinese, then Vietnam. They would deploy a parachute so they could be picked up mid-air so they wouldn't fall into foreign hands. China shot down a few of them and set the shot them down and set those drones up for public display.

Drones have a much longer history than you'd think!

You have lost:

• Two giant bags of my dogs food
• the combined weight of my 6yr old, 3 yr old, as well as my corgi
• within sight of my entire wife
• a few bales of hay
• The combined weight of all the meat in my freezer (roughly)
• Two bags of potatos from the local farmers market
• TEN BAGS OF POTATO FROM THE STORE!

And approximately 1/4 the weight of my wife's suitcase for any given trip.

Anyway thats the nonsense that came to mind. Congrats again!