The cheapest option I’ve found is Hetzner storage boxes, they don’t even charge for bandwidth. Backblaze and Wasabi are good options too, but Backblaze charges for outbound bandwidth and Wasabi is increasing their prices.

AWS Glacier will be cheaper until you need to restore the data. On AWS, you’ll pay $0.09/GB for bandwidth + Glacier retrieval fees. Over time, AWS might be cheaper but you’ll be looking at a $3000+ bill to restore 30 TB.

I use Tailscale with my Jellyfin server.

I’ve tried https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui with LLaMA, didn’t have enough VRAM to run it though.

I use Traefik and configuring everything through docker-compose files is way more convenient than nginx or a proxy manager (never used one though). Traefik also has a web interface, but you can’t configure anything with it.

Just one. Tried kbin but didn’t like it.

AI generated search is a huge improvement over what we had before. Before, when you searched a question or topic that doesn’t have a Wikipedia page or easy answer, you get a ton of SEO spam. Stack Overflow is still a great resource for programming, but for most general knowledge, AI generated is so much more useful.

I’ve been using Brave Search and the AI summarizer is pretty good, and I get to avoid loading shitty websites. For specific questions that aren’t easy for search engines to answer, I really like how ChatGPT is conversational and lets you ask followup questions. Another thing I’ve been using is perplexity.ai, it can actually search the internet and cite sources.

Overall, AI has been a big help to me, and lets me avoid going to other websites which are usually just awful now. Most websites are full of ads, trackers, cookie notices, “Checking your connection”, I’m done with dealing with that. Search engines are there when I forget the domain for a service or link to a GitHub project.

For your friends and family, Signal is probably the best. It’s simple to use and set up, unlike SimpleX which some might have trouble with. For people who refuse to switch, iMessage.