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Ideally? I’d say something with support for 2 drives, mirrored.

Without a price to define “not crazy expensive”, I’d say take a look at QNAP and Synology 2-bay devices, pick what fits the price range. I’d put it on the network and mount it on the PCs you want to as a drive to drop things in.

Then I’d add one more thing - 3-2-1 for anything critical.

• Three copies of all critical data should be made on a regular basis. Original data + at least two backups
• Two different storage types should be used to store the data to minimize the chance of failure.
• One offsite location. Could be an encrypted copy of a backup on cloud storage, could be a drive at another home.

How critical data is would be up to you and your parents, I just want to note that a single backup at your home is not going to be helpful if there is flooding or a fire or whatever that would damage both the originals and the backup device.

Video playback of local media server (jellyfin), gaming (emulators mostly, and some old games), kids games (gcompris), podcast and audiobook playback (audiobookshelf).

Thats what runs on mine at least.

For my lab its testing ideas. More often than not, it involved hardware outside the server. Cloud hosted is not an option for that, or playing with a variety of distributions, testing applications, etc.

Whoops! Brain no worky.

Fixed, thanks!

Lidarr + Picard when needed is about all I do, need for Picard is pretty rare at this point, except when pulling in tracks from burned CDs of esoteric mixes I made quite a long time ago.

I wonder if Plex recently started sponsoring them with a take like that lol

I have many 6th, 7th, and 8th gen machines - yes, it will do just fine, tiny/mini/micro is my entire self hosted experience (with few exceptions).

Snaps made me personally stop using Ubuntu.

I just went back to Debian and I’m happy.

Well this looks fun to try out — I’ll have to install it later and give it a go!

(Sorry couldn’t resist with the em dash)

But I will give it a try later on, been playing around with auth options lately

No worries I completely get it!

I can’t have gluten, so a big advantage for me is importing and modifying, and yes sometimes taking pictures with notes so I can make easier adjustments next time. Definitely the right fit for us, but I can understand OP wanting something leaner if their needs are lighter for sure.

Whatever does the trick for you! For me its mealie, because my wife loves to find new recipes online, and I just can’t stand dealing with these sites. So import by URL is my main feature, then I tweak it as I go, no more dain bramage from terrible sites.

If you’ve got the recipe though - yeah markdown or cooklang rocks as a solution!