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  • I wanna disagree with you here. I recently dove in to ripping my DVD collection. On average it seems to take 10-20 minutes to rip and then 20-30 to reencode into a more reasonable file size. That’s longer than some downloads but not nearly all. If I’m doing a bunch I can do them simultaneously and save some time that way too.

    It’s all moot anyhow, since op mentioned a data cap. I just wanted to offer some perspective I happened to have.


  • I’m no expert but I’ll offer my input until one shows up.

    I use Ubuntu for my Plex server. It eliminates a lot of your complaints with Windows. It’s less resource heavy, you update it yourself, mine runs 24/7 unless I’ve done a kernel update which requires a restart, and that’s just restart time.

    It’s definitely among the more ease of use distros, and what you don’t already know will generally not take much effort to find or get help with. Running command line only will free up resources and likely won’t take long to pick up what you need to run how you need to.

    All that said I’ve not done anything with NextCloud or Bitwarden.



  • I’m very much in agreement with you. I think there’s an important value in seeking out those you disagree with. If your values can’t stand under scrutiny then you really do need to carefully consider them.

    At the same time there’s space between what you disagree with and what is harmful to your state of mind for most people. Plenty of people don’t want to see anything NSFW and removing that is in no way turning their experience into a bubble.

    Nuance is absolutely an important word here but I think the knee jerk isolation response to mention of blocking things is far more harmful than helpful.