without checking that I'm not way off the mark.

From your post, you seem ready for it. Go for it. The most important thing is to have it, and use it!

It's always nice to have as much performance as possible, but the minimum specs you posted will work. You might run into issues with Jellyfin's on-the-fly video transcoding if you go too slow, but you can work around that. Modern hardware can be suprisingly low-power, too. But don't set yourself an arbitrarily low power limit; a PC drawing 40 watts only costs ~$50 a year to run continiously.

I am hoping a friend will allow me to (somehow? I don't know how yet) keep a hub+HDD backup at their place which is updated weekly automatically whenever their computer turns on.

The approach I took is: a raspberri pi with a big hard drive plugged in to my parent's router. All it does is auto-backup from my home server.

I know people are going to freak out about exposing a sever to the internet, and that definately is a risk. But honestly, what's the point of the server if it's not exposed to the internet?

When I used to work for an MIC company, these printouts got passed around a lot. But because there is no positive vision of improving society within the MIC, it never lead to any self-reflection or drive for improvement.

I read this post last night at 2am, and thought "holy fuck I need to go to sleep, I don't understand what I just read"

This is the answer. The USA's capacity to build utility-scale plants has atrophied significantly since the 90s, and would require a decade of ramp-up to meet the projected demand. We literally don't have enough engineers and other specialists to do it, so you're talking about putting people through school and training before there would even be enough hands to physically do the labor. On top of that, it would require industrial policy to make the financing work (e.g., government-backed loans, because of course it would all be done through private companies).

In the meantime, you can do stuff like import gas turbines from South Korea.

RIP

His appearance on Bill Mahr's show in 2005 was important to creating the initial cracks in my comfortable liberal world view. He presented ideas which I found genuinely shocking and repulsive... ideas that stuck with me and acted as nucleation points for the development of a new fundamental world view. Someone needed to say it, and Ward said it, at significant personal cost to himself.

(To Facebook, of course)

If you watched the series finale on the day you were born, you would be 18 today.

This truly captures the soul of the party

Zuko's redemption arc works so well in part because most of his family are irredeemable villains, and so he needs to discover and develop moral compass on his own.