Not that I'd recommend doing this, but back when I was younger, I had the not so bright idea that I could go to work come home, game the whole night, then go back to work. It was a terrible idea in hindsight, but I used to it a lot. To achieve this, I used to mix energy drinks and pre-workout to stay awake, and I'd drink it as though I was drinking water, so I ended up drinking a butt load. I just want to stress again though that I'd never recommend actually doing this though unless as a last resort, but even then I'd caution away from it. I get there are times when one feels they absolutely must stay awake, God knows the amount of times I accidentally slept through something, and ruined relationships, but as others have said planning is probably the issue you're facing.
I just spent way too long playing that… lol, thanks!
How much space do you think you'll need? What type of redundancy systems are you planning to put into place, or even still do you plan to put any redundancy systems in place? Is there a specific reason you'd like to go with an external hard drive over setting up an internal raid array of some sort? Was your plan simply to just have an external drive plugged into your pc through USB or USB-C?
I think these would be my main questions before I could feel comfortable pointing you in any directing, since naming a brand name or specific drive while efficient probably wouldn't be good for you in the long run.
I'm using an Invidious instance.
You could just subscribe to the Patient Gamers community on whatever instance you move to, you wouldn't need to keep your sh.itjust.works account or anything.
You'll want to look at either Plex or Jellyfin for your front-end streaming clients, personally I prefer Jellyfin for its customizability. For sorting media, you'll want Sonarr for TV-Shows and Radarr for movies. To find the magnet links to send to Sonarr and Radarr you'll need something like Prowlarr which will pull magnet links from the sources you'll specify. With that out of the way you'll need some way to take those magnet links and actually download from them and for my I prefer to use qBit, but any torrent client will work, just make sure to put it behind a VPN. Lastly, I'd set up Obmi to allow your users to make requests. In regard to the OS why not use something like TrueNAS compared to the guide which suggested Ubuntu, I've found the UI in TrueNAS Scale to be much easier to work with especially since all the services I mentioned are apps that you just pretty much one click installs.
Do you still have the Google search engine added? I always fully remove it, since Searx pulls from Google anyways, I don't really see the point in keeping it.
Please keep rule 3 in mind for the sack of keeping your account from potentially being banned for rule violation.
Let's say you're on your lemmy.ml account, and you get banned from the lemmy.dbzer0.com instance, you would just be banned from that instance not all instances. But if you got banned on lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml then you'd lose access to that account. Alternatively, you can also get banned on a community level as well. In regard to your accounts with the same name between instances there is no link, they are entirely separate.
Stared at this for so long, everything's looking pink now, lol
No problem :)
I'd love to read your explanation for each distro's ranking.