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Check permissions of the external drive, and set owner to jellyfin group. Give rw permissions to that group/drive.

deeper hole, longer anchor (and longer screws) to take into account the ~10mm of plaster. If the brick is also soft your drill bit may be making a larger diameter hole than intended - careful drilling will be needed.

The anchor should be tight and need to be hammered in until the lip is flush with the surface.

thought i was having a stroke trying to read the original

I like email.

I pay for my own domain. I pay a privacy focused European provider for email and they let me use my own domain. I use an European DNS provider.

So I have email addresses with my own domain and the setup is pretty straightforward and I can use webmail or a desktop|mobile client.

I used a 3040 to run a vaultwarden install and a web server. I switched to something more powerful (more ram, more ssd, faster CPU) and added jellyfin, a file server, and some *arr apps. I still have the 3040, thinking about putting pihole on it.