As a teenager, I found out that this stuff works like a charm if you aren’t the ‘cool guy’ in school. I saw the same thing in university, during smokes between classes and drinks after lectures. All the intelligent, nerdy guys became much more open and welcoming toward me.

My advice: Keep doing what you’re doing until you feel like you’re in the smarter half of the room. That’s the sign that you’re doing it too much.

3. Technology breakthrough: Manufacturing more ram for less money.

Cool, also like the style of the blog, however the “Loading…” animation is kind a strange. It lasts almost 2sec , while the page data is completely loaded after 500ms or so.

I absolutely feel your pain. However, there is also the side that all this complexity must be handled somehow. The other extreme is that you’d have to compile all the software and its dependencies from scratch, as well as read and understand the source code.

In the end, it boils down to the people who actually care (like you, who is probably one of them) to exercise caution—looking at the output of curl https://some.rando.url/install.sh before doing the | sudo bash -c and constantly insisting on the validity and absolute necessity of signature checks, transparency, and so on. Meanwhile, all the other folks get at least a foothold in self-sovereignty without being completely smashed by the details of compiler flags.

All these speeds the providers advertise (especially the faster ones) are often cut down by bad peering. I often had an issue downloading bigger files from my storage when I was traveling. Only got some single digit MBit transfer speeds due to bad peering, while speed tests has shown decent results. When it comes down to Selfhosting the upload/download figures alone not always tell the truth. In my point of view 20Mbps is actually even sufficient for most of private stuff, even streaming HD content to one ore two peers simultaneously.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need,

… till the start torrenting

Unless you’ve been arrested and are in pretrial detention without access to any devices that would allow you to do that. But in that case, the Arr stack on your server is probably the least of your problems.