If you only use it so rarely, why not just connect a USB drive to your network router? Most have an option to serve files from that over the network.

A RasberryPi uses so little power when idleing that turning it on and off on demand makes not a whole lot of a difference. It is different though with OP’s x86 with spinning rust drives.

Is there also a way to simulate splitscreen with that?

How else are you going to use it? Ok they have an hosted instance, but that’s not great for privacy and will break as soon as it gets somewhat popular as the sites usually have scraping protections.

This is quite useful to self-host: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

This really depends on your exact setup and might not be true for hardware raid.

Generally speaking, I would look into replacing that ageing raid with something more modern like Btrfs or ZFS where you are significantly more flexible with the drives used.

One way would be to have a monthly subscription on your home Peertube instance with a certain percentage being passed through by the instance admins to creators on other instances.

For you to understand: when you say “keep politics out of tech” that is an explicit political position and you are basically saying “politics for me, but not for you”. Or to put it in different terms: unspoken support for the status quo, is a deeply reactionary political position and you are trying to enforce this by “keeping politics out of tech”.

Completely depends on your use, but it is basically ever growing and larger than the typical cheap VPS includes. A few tens of GBs at least.

Uhm, this is not very good advise, as the bridges especially often do not work well with non-Synapse homeserver implementations. And especially Conduit also has a very different way to setup appservices, so it becomes much harder to configure the bridges correctly.

Matrix needs fast storage, and a lot of it, even if you only use it for bridges. A RPi5 with a good amount of NVMe storage will probably work, but if you only want to use it for bridges I would rather recommend to set up an XMPP server with Slidge which gives you better clients and can run on a RPi4 easily.

https://github.com/lldap/lldap is a good alternative that’s easy to setup.

https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist

Does what you want except the auto-delete I think.

With hardware like that the main issues are power inefficiency and (often) lack of UEFI support making it hard to install modern distros on them.

Otherwise there should be mitigations for the CPU issues, so unlikely that it will be a real issue from the security perspective.

They understand the mechanisms of abuse and have a stunning gift

… for abusing others, yes. Thanks, but no thanks.

As an Anarchist myself: this is the most absurd take on ACAB and moderation I have heard in a while.

And apparently you have been lucky to not have had to deal with bad-faith concern trolling that some narcissist like to do online.

There is also the deep asymmetry of effort. Nearly all moderators are volunteers that put in largely invisible effort every day, for no return. As all humans they sometimes make mistakes and can also have a bad day.

On the other hand there are people that put almost no effort in, but are deeply offended by any moderation action against them and will rise a huge stink about it.

These two factors together make people very reluctant to volunteer for moderation duties in popular communities, which is a major issue for the health of the Lemmyverse as a whole.

The one at the top could also be a connector for a serial port for debugging or so.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp seems to be designed for such cases, but I have not tried it myself.

Nothing specifically, just nice improvements cumulating over the years.