Running background tasks in Nextcloud is a huge thing to get right, as you have found out...

Followed... I'll take a listen.
Where else is it available other than castopod?

For photos I'd look at running immich as it handles duplicates well, and it also plays nicely for you to categorise your photos and videos. For general backups, as said, I would personally look at a solution. I personally use duplicati, others exist, you can have a look into what you need. rsync can do the job, but I found duplicati quicker and easier to setup

I haven't changed much in years, still run a truenas box (was freenas before) with 5 spinning rust drives and never lost any data yet (bang goes something now I've said it). Currently duplicati but some stuff is just backed up manually still. Each to their own like, and immich on truenas for backing up photos and videos

Had a discussion with another creator buddy and they said it appeared that there was a load less scraping going on which inflated their viewer figures for months. I wonder if youtube is finally stopping their whole content being scraped perpetually?

Whilst on many things I respect Linus he is always opinionated to the max. I seem to remember him doing the same over hardware raid and then software raid as well over the years - so Linus what would you like us to use for some data security eh? I do have to throw in that this article is also from 2023 - a long time and a whole host of the issues he says are simply not true any longer

So you need to understand a bit more about addresses here. If you access the website from the pi it will be http://localhost:5232/ as the address using the defaults. Form another machine it will be http://ipofpi:5232/

As said below you need to make a file to specify that address, but the defaults given will end up with the above ip addresses. It is a http, not a https as well. So config the address used via the documentation and then access it how you'd like to. This is used because you can, if you wish, specify a different port (5232 is the default)

I hope that helps

I have seen multiple reports about it!
One quick search revealed this forbes report earlier this year

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2025/02/12/launched-20-years-ago-more-people-are-now-watching-youtube-on-tv/

It is part of that, but youtube is consumed more on tvs than other devices now worldwide. Now that means that the people who now watch YT are less likely to watch LTT because that is not their focus. I mean shorts are a huge part of YT yet most people seem to dislike them.

no smart tv but through a tv box (not android). Don't mind the ads when we watch on our projector, if I do I watch on wifes gaming pc also hooked up to projector

thus the continued war on ads...

you can force a lot of options still when you upload a video OR provide a link. Plenty do that. For example in the tags add yt:cc=on will force on captions when you play a video