EmptyRadar

Yes, I’m just offering an option to replicate that streaming functionality here. As to versatility, that depends entirely on what you’re doing. There are situations in which the Steamdeck would actually be the far more limited platform compared to what I described.

If you’re just wanting the functionality of a Steamdeck on some other device, there are a variety of ways to accomplish that. If the other device is an Android, you can just install the Steam Link app and you’re off to the races. If it’s something else, depending on the device you can probably get Moonlight running on it, which will accomplish the same thing but will actually have more versatility than you’d get with a Steamdeck anyway.

Yep, there was a time when streaming services actually became easier than piracy. That was when there was basically just Netflix and Hulu. If you had both of those, you had everything.

I have:

-Netflix (included w/ phone plan)
-Hulu + Disney + ESPN (bundle)
-Shudder
-CuriosityStream / Nebula
-Spotify

Then I have my own personal Jellyfin server for everything else.

He’s one of maybe 3 YouTubers whose videos I will immediately click on when I see a new one. Gonna miss his content, it’s always genuinely interesting.

Back in the ancient Greek era there were people worried that printed books were going to rot peoples’ minds because they would just be absorbed in them 24/7.

Do what you wanna do, dude.

Nice - yeah, the API is just a convenient way to access the data. The truth is that if a browser can view reddit.com, a script can pull the data and put it somewhere else.

Personally, I’m working on a script to scrape certain subs every few days and display them in a page I’m self-hosting. Who needs their API? All I really care about over there anymore is tech related info I need for my job.

You could probably do this yourself with a decent copy of the movie, just turn off the audio channel for the music.

Seconding - you can actually squeeze a surprising amount of use out of a Pi4 running Docker.

After many years of tinkering, I finally gave in and converted my whole stack over to UnRAID a few years ago. You know what? It’s awesome, and I wish I had done it sooner. It automates so many of the more tedious aspects of home server management. I work in IT, so for me it’s less about scratching the itch and more about having competent hosting of services I consider mission-critical. UnRAID lets me do that easily and effectively.

Most of my fun stuff is controlled through Docker and VMs via UnRAID, and I have a secondary external Linux server which handles some tasks I don’t want to saddle UnRAID with (PFSense, Adblocking, etc). The UnRAID server itself has 128GB RAM and dual XEON CPUs, so plenty of go for my home projects. I’m at 12TB right now but I was just on Amazon eyeing some 8TB drives…

This exact situation is why I eventually shut down access to my media server to only my household. I had the same setup for many years and it just got to be a clusterfuck of people messaging me that things were broken, not working how they wanted, need to have more features, aren’t working fast enough, etc. I work in IT. I get enough of that when I’m clocked in, I don’t need it at home too.

Good luck though, OP.

AudioBookShelf is awesome for audiobooks. I can’t speak to its capability as an eReader but I thought I’d throw that out there for anyone wanting a second opinion. I use it daily and the Android app is great too. My go-to audiobook server for life if it stays just like it is right now.