Bronzie

No.
All 5 Nordic countries are consistently in the top 10 and are very much capitalistic, albeit with a very strong social safety net and a historic mentality of cooperation.

Capitalism is a functional system as long as it is heavily regulated. As soon as the corporations are allowed to influence politicians and the media not held responsible for presenting a false narrative, the system begins crumbling.

And those saying it's impossible to get rich in our type of society: The top 10 list of millionaires per capita has three Nordic countries in it, and three of the other countries are tax heavens Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Ooof, this is the reason why I religiously watch the first layer and why my daughters ain't printing without me or the missus around just yet!

I have three servers running these days.
One is a NAS that hosts the .arr suite and my torrent client. This is just to keep the media management in one place.
A N100 NUC that runs a lot of stuff in Proxmox, like Jellyfin, Heimdal, HomeAssistant, PiHole, Tailscale. I hope to add Caddy to this in the future, but I've never played with a reverse proxy before so I'm a tiny bit scared hehe.
Lastly is a inudstrial PC I got from work that hosts game servers. Right now it's down as we haven't had time to game, but usually it's either a Minecraft server or Valheim.

For backup I have one copy on the NAS and I upload the most critical data to a cloud service I trust and pay for. This is now Proton.
My dream is finding a tech friend with his/her own NAS so we can set up a encrypted partition on each others NASes for automatic backup. I give you 1 TB, you give me 1 TB, life's good!

As with most things: it depends...

If you're in a country where ISP's freely give out user info, I'd say you should have a VPN.
If you're on a private tracker, you might not need it, but you never know if the people hunting pirates managed to get in there too.
I don't use one as our ISP's mostly throw those letters in the trash and I'm in a private tracker, but your mileage may vary.

To get started, you only need a server (like Jellyfin or Plex) and a torrent client. Then you can automate it with the .arr stack, such as Radarr and Sonarr, race others with autodl-issri/Autobrr, share your media with friends and family with open ports (not recommended) or Tailscale/Netbird...
It gets as advanced as you yourself want it to be.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions, not just about piracy but how to set things up in general.
Good luck, and remember to have fun while doing it. If you don't, you won't bother keeping it updated and working in the future.

Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released

No, again, he said anyone that parrots it. If you keep repeating that argument over and over, then your are parroting it. That's what parrots do; they repeat stuff.
If you are offended, then it's time for some self reflection. That is not an ad-hominem, but a blanket statement and opinion.

And no, you're being selective with the truth. You cherry pick bits of what he said to present your argument in a better light. I don't entertain that, my friend.

Your last point is true, but again you are being selective with how you present it.

If I point a gun at you and say you die unless you do something against your personal morality, you'd most likely still do it. That is in the name of survival.
Yeah, you'll be able to go to work tomorrow and make money because you're not dead, but nobody can accuse you of doing it for profit. That is what you are in essence doing here and it's a bad take in every possible way except morally.
Steam fought back and lost. They could morally tell Visa and MasterCard to pound sand and die with their heads held high, but I'm guessing they like you as my potential murder victim above, chose to keep existing instead.

He didn’t. He said people who parrot it are.
Unless you do, there is no reason to be offended. Up to you.

And no; realistically, if you lose Visa and Mastercard, you can close shop. Obviously it’s for profit, because a 99% reduction in turnover means all employees out of work.
Yes, I took that number out of thin air, but I know most people would never bother as that is what they have.
Maybe it’s different in your country.

Mine too!

Still local, small time with a few thousand customers. They don’t upcharge internet prices if you skip linear TV.
All emplyees are local and I see them drive around.

I don’t care how good your pitch is, Mr. Salesman at my door: I’m sticking with what I’ve got!

Are you streaming to a Chromecast, by any chance? Or a older Galaxy device?
The 4k Chromecast with Google TV does not support AV1, but the 1080p version does. Jellyfin tried Direct Playing AV1 files, which obviously went poorly.

I run the same CPU in my NUC as you do, and all data is on a NAS shared with NFS. It's been absolutely bulletproof for about a year, so I'm confident you should be able to make this work.

Any other containers running at the same time?
No cooling issues?

Just asking because mine dropped massively in temp when repasted.

I disagree, but not just to disagree.

AMS is still very useful for having hazzle free filament swaps, keeping the filament dry and with the AMS 2 even drying the filament.
If all you do is multimaterial or multicolour, then sure, INDX/Snapmaker/Vortek is amazing for time and cost saving, but most people at home will never ever be able to reach a volume of poop where it makes financial sense to pay the premium.
The Snapmaker is obviously an exception, but it sacrifices both build volume and a heated chamber to achieve the <1k price.

95% of what I do is mono colour, so the ocational toy for the kids with 200g of poop for a 50g part is worth the trade.

People also severely underestimate the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for many of us. If my missus has to tinker more than 15 seconds before a print, I recieve the brunt if her frustration. It’s quite probable that all these tool-/hotend-swap systems will require some love as well. RatRig’s IDEX and Prusa XL have had many experienced people giving up.

I think this topic is highly subjective and personally just ordered the H2S. Quick math showed me I needed >75 rolls of pure poop before the H2D would make sense, and H2C will cost even more. I’d rather look at these systems down the line when more quirks have been ironed out.

I really have no clue.
It looks like a cool system, but I also think they might be rushing it to have a reply to the U1.
Will it work well from the get go?
How long does it take to change filament and hotend?
Will mis-alignment stop prints often, as things get worn?

They also cannot possibly price it lower that the H2D, as it is the same printer with more tech.
Prusa has also more or less confirmed to be releasing the INDX-system soon, which seems like a smarter system to me.

If it turns out as polished as Bambu often do and not to expensive (sub 3k), then it will demolish the competition. I’m happy we all get to be a part of the insane development race going on these days.

Also: if Prusa wants to compete, they have to offer a heated chamber and decent camera as standard. I still can’t fathom how they dared to release the Core One without.
I’m willing to pay quite a bit more for European made, but not if it feels like a complete rip-off.

Yeah, I think it's very clever, but like you say it will be interesting to see how the system fairs outside a lab environment over time.
And even if it does work flawlessly, there is no way they will price it lower than the H2D which is already outside what I consider reasonable for sporadic home use.

If all my dreams come true, the competition heats up and they end up dumping the prices over the board.
Realistically though, I'll keep an eye on the H2S over the next few months and see if people have issues with it before I give away even more of my hard earned money.