sunbeam60

Lots of people leave the tag in for transparency. The world must feel like such a conspiracy for you.

Client screen for Air Manager.

Whatever you end up buying, and I speak from bitter experience here, swap the SSD that it comes with it. Consumer SSDs in micro systems do NOT have the write cycles required for 24/7 docker activity.

Now I run a couple of Micron 7450 Max server SSDs. Live and learn.

Running your own email server is easy.

Getting your email accepted by other servers is hard.

Hosting anything publicly requires a significant amount of hardening.

Neither of those two tasks are easy or low maintenance. I self host almost everything and I’ve run my own mail server (with occasional rejection). It’s not worth it for me; I now use a commercial, paid provider.

Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.

Plex has clients for every single device there is. I arrive to some 2018 smart tv in a holiday cottage and the absolutely dreadful, measly App Store, now long abandoned, has a plex client.

Also I have a very old life time pass so current pricing means nothing to me.

They deliver a working piece of software to you. They employ people to maintain it and add new features. They ask a price for this work.

How is this rent seeking?