very much so.

those “morons” represent the vast majority of internet users.

bad actors use shorteners to mask the actual url of their pages so their potential victims don’t know where they’re going until it is, perhaps, ‘too late’

Opening the shortened URL in your browser will instantly redirect you to the correct long URL. (So no stupid redirection pages.)

an interstitial or redirect page would be a security feature, especially for a shortener open to the public.

They’re doing it so other people can stream their media

and they went to a subscription model, in part, so they could get their ‘cut’ from plex shares.

keep the server–so much possibility there. swap the fans out for quiet ones.

adguard home is foss (gpl3)

as long as you’re still a mac user the icloud space and sub isn’t really going to waste. can you do what you want to do on your android phone by just using a browser? i know you can’t do ‘everything’ that way, but basic file and email access should be accessible from pretty much any device’s browser.

we were looking awhile back for one, but none of the tplink models at walmart (the only retailer with routers within 50 miles) supported flashing with a third-party firmware and i didn’t want to shop online for one.

we sorta lucked-out, though… ended up just using the one from our old provider since they never asked for it back or charged us for it. it’s dual band, has wpa3, guest ssid and vlan. enough for us for now. all we had to do is flip a setting from dsl uplink to wan uplink.

not difficult at all, snapraid’s online documentation is very good.

i have three snapraids here. one with (what was at the time) new disks, and two made up of old salvaged disks like you’ve got–pulled from systems and laptops headed for the recycle bin.