"or else". and raise your eyebrows (practice in front of a mirror).
on a more serious note, if you set it up via docker on a VPS, you have a portable solution that can a) be easily scaled within the provider's infra and b) be transferred to on-premises bare metal, should the need arise.
the film is and was awesome with the only weak spot being the inexplicably overdramatic crenna, it's cringe-inducing whenever he starts to speak. the sequels are nothing short of idiotic, starting with the headband - he wore the thing as a bandage and somehow it became his identity.
do yourself a favor and read the book. the characters are downright psychotic, the lot of them. way less action and more introspective explorations of two men descending into their own private hell, getting crazier by the hour. morell wrote it after watching reels from vietnam and talking to psychotic vets.
tarantino quipped once that he'd like to do the book, with adam driver as rambo and kurt russel as sheriff.
runs fine on my setup (R5 5600, RX 570 4 GB) 1080p medium, but I haven't played it much as it has some weird setup where it wants me to use both keyboard/mouse and controller (prompts me to press B on the gamepad to get out of car) so I continue to shoot peggies; I'll revisit it some day.
as to repacks, DODI runs exceptionally well for everything I tried, whereas Fitgirl has some bonehead compression play that a) takes eons to install and b) makes your PC unusable while installing. once installed, there aren't any discernible differences.
I used to run my stack on macOS and back then I used Catch to grab episodes of shows I was subscribed to via ShowRSS and Filebot to rename and sort the downloaded movies and shows in a Plex-friendly layout; Plex then grabs new additions autmatically, pretty sure you don't need to rescan manualy.
like most here I replaced that mess with Sonarr/Radarr and eventualy switched over to Jellyfin when Plex introduced one "feature" too many.
I deployed RocketChat on two different client installations (didn't check the licensing you're mentioning, I'll have to look into that) and I run a Prosody instance (XMPP) on my own; tried Matrix for a short while and ran away from that mess as fast as I could. anyhow, although the messengers work without any significant issues or downtime, the amount of flak I get from non-tech normies about the client apps is staggering.
the apps just aren't up to current UX standards. they're used to Twitter and iMessage and Telegram quality UX, and getting used to these PoC-quality apps - both on mobile and desktop - makes them "feel icky". I've had to intervene on a number of occasions when some of them transferred their business-related comms to other platforms because they just can't/won't get used to these apps.
regarding the pricy enclosures, there are vastly cheaper eGPU solutions especially if you're able to utilise the on-board M.2 or mini-PCI slot. if you don't move the laptop around, it's a viable option. this would be an example - not an endorsment. you'd need a $15 PSU to power the graphics and it works well in linux, with the hotpluggability being the primary issue; if you're willing to shutdown before attaching the eGPU, close to no issues.
you can run it as graphics card (i.e. utilize its display outputs) or just use the laptop's display with optionally switching between the onboard and discrete graphics.
to me the Ian Holm abomination was terrible, without any redeeming qualities. same thing as rogue one, exact same shittyness, zero technological progress, crude and unnecessarily distracting.
using rsync:
why not btrfs send | btrfs receive? is there some advantage to rsync?
did you hotswap the drives after each btrfs replace or shutdown and then swap?
what's your host OS and do the drives spin down if inactive?
thanks for the writeup!
I've set up a local mail archive with just dovecot + imap plugin. you don't need the full mail server with postfix and whatnot, as it's not intended to send anything anywhere, or even receive anything for that matter. it just sits there ready to be searched with thunderbird, no need for other complex solutions you've mentioned.
Don't follow the PS scene, but I gathered that's an AMD APU in there? If so, what's the desktop equivalent performance-wise?