Get a cheap one on lowendspirit.com instead.

Depends on the specs. If it’s really old the power consumption will cost more than you’d spend on newer hardware. I have such a box sitting at home doing nothing. It’s cheaper to rent a hetzner dedi.

Just get a vps it still counts as self hosting if you run all the software yourself.

Yeah Jitsi is probably more reliable to use but harder to self host.

GNU Jami but it’s not all that great to use unfortunately.

That leaves you with 17 more of them though.

These are mini PCs right? So you want something with a room full of humans or some type of local online service. Anyway, not a purely computer project.

Library terminals and game room come to mind, but neither are for installing at home.

I use remote encrypted backup and it’s been good so far. Hetzner Storage box, around $11/month for 5TB, pretty reasonable. If you want a lot more storage you can pay somewhat less per TB.

I wonder if any comparable services don’t re-use the address when it’s on the service’s domain, maybe after a grace period. I use fastmail mostly for my own domains though I do have some addresses on theirs. Certainly if you let a domain expire, the registrar will sell it to someone else. Seems similar.

Someone once offered me a nice chunk of cash for one of my domains. I might have accepted it if they didn’t want the domain handed over immediately. It’s a domain I receive some email through, so would have wanted a shutdown period to prevent at least some of the email for ending up with the domain’s new owner.

Yes, I forgot Migadu. I played with it a little and it was nice, though I think it costs more now.

I’ve been using fastmail.com for a long time and am satisfied, though it’s on the expensive side and I haven’t looked into every alternative.

If you want cheap email hosting for your own domain, mxroute.com has been around for a while and cranemail.com is new, but both are small companies run by people who know what they are doing (online acquaintances of mine if that matters).

I don’t see much need to retain or upload dashcam video unless something happens. It’s so you can document what happened if you’re in a crash, get a ticket, or whatever. Otherwise just re-use the storage. You don’t need to permanently record every moment of your life.

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Some people use TPM hardware for this. Others (big cloud operators) have a ton of complicated infrastructure involving among other things special key servers on a walled off LAN. I don’t know a really satisfying answer, so will keep watching the thread.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thermal+paper+toxic gets some hits.

"Dear q1p_: I am Prince Sani Abacha of Nigeria and… "

Cute. I wanted to make something like that for my mom (so friends and family could message her on it, not for strangers) but I never got around to it. She knew how to use email but didn’t check it very often, so a printer would have been more immediate. It would have to have been an impact printer though, since another family member (probably correctly) wanted to stay away from thermal paper on health grounds.

Maybe this is what you saw:

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-invited-strangers-to-message-me-through-a-receipt-printer/

It will be back. Stay alert.

Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it’s worth looking into. I’m just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?

Just get some cheap web hosting.