I have some thoughts on this, but do want to echo what one other poster said about bulk buying ingredients. If you’re in the US, Costco accepts EBT at all stores, and I believe you don’t need a membership. I would also look online to find any and all local food assistance programs to help augment what you will have available to have available, because some rice and beans could absolutely change your life with some potatoes.

For recipes:

• Potato soup/chowder (good storage)
• Korean stews if you can get your hands on a big bag of Korean red pepper powder one time that lasts years, usually
• Scalloped potatoes
• Mashed potatoes (good storage)
• Kenji’s Crispiest Potatoes Ever
• Real Slow Baked Potatoes (1+ hour in the oven, no foil) though this doesn’t store well
• Broth and potatoes (some people try to rebrand as Melting Potatoes
• Oven Baked Fries

Some of these may need more ingredients, like a base broth, but most should be pretty minimal. I have all kinds of food buying and providing hacks if you need more tips, or mention a general area of where you’re at. Someone else may also know of other programs you can take advantage of.

You’re asking for a lot of different things that don’t align, so instead of trying to guess what you need, let me just throw a few things out there:

• if you want transcoding that isn’t constantly tied to GPU, you want an AMD chip of some sort. If you’re trying to be efficient, an APU model.
• you probably want to just merge all your data into a single disk array. Running multiple on one system is pointless and inefficient.
• separate your CPU needs from storage. Like you said, maybe you just need an ultra low power NAS, and then different machine to handle compute.
• skip SSD for any network storage. Yes it’s more power efficient, but if you’re talking bulk storage, you’re wasting resources for smaller volumes where it won’t matter if transferred over the network. SSD is good for local-only for the most part.

The issue is more likely to be your port selection and UDP being discarded on networks with captive portals that generally only allow certain ports and traffic. Try using some other common UDP service ports like 53/DNS if not already in use, or maybe 5060/SIP, or even other common VPN ports.

Unless they’re running L7 hardware in the hotels, I doubt they’re doing any kind of packet inspection.

It’s more important to get that dmesg output AFTER an event happens, but before a reboot. What you’re running doesn’t matter much unless you have live metrics of their behavior or resources.

Lol

Blocked

There isn’t one.

Stick to the best brands out there that have been benchmarked.

No such thing for dumplings.

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Guess what? They didn’t pay any better when the previous generation was working them either.

THAT’S THE PROBLEM

Some for that.

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Gen Z refuses to realize they need a fucking job instead of fighting to be an influencer.

Because MiniDisc got it right, and Sony refused to open source the tech.

This fucking timeline…

Need logs to be able to tell you much. Get some output from dmesg after it happens, but before a reboot. Syslogs couldn’t hurt. Maybe setting up a metrics exporter to another machine could give you a peek into what is happening with resources.

Also give some details about OS and what you’re running on it.

Done.

They are a TRILLION DOLLAR company. They aren’t flinching.

Didn’t realize we all were now incapable of looking out the window. That seems like something an absolutely incapable person would do because they’re way too lazy.

IPFS is like a dead Multiplayer game, or an Onion network. Check it out.

Matter itself is different from data passing through HA.