Pay peanuts, get monkeys. AI hasn't changed that equation, so if they think that a grad will accept negative pay and come out the other end skilled, they are on crack.
Businesses have always paid to upskill young employees, its a cost of being an employer.
You only need your PC on when others are using the spreadsheet.
Keep an eye out for mini PCs on second hand market places, they can be found for a couple hundred dollars or less, and are perfect for running something like this 24/7. Youll want a fairly decent internet connection though.
You can get free VMs on oracle cloud. Yes, Oracle are a bunch of cunts, but free is free, and you can get a free ARM VM with plenty of RAM that should be adequate for nextcloud.
Make sure you setup https properly.
This annoys me as well. And its not just AUR either, I hit this with pi.dev plugins, which are in NPM:
https://pi.dev/packages?name=permissions
Look how many duplicates there are, just because one person mildly changed am existing one, and never contributed back instead.
People are publishing their slop projects as if they intend on maintaining them, but they clearly aren't capable or willing to actually maintain them.
https://esphome.io/components/serial_proxy/
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Serial-to-TCP-Bridge/
A esp32 dev board and some soldering might work.
Bitrate? I'm guessing its been upscaled or something anyway, because the office was never filmed in 1080p.
I was going to guess compression, but if that is a blueray quality rip then maybe not. Does it happen with any other players, or is it just MPV?
You may want to consider splitting out the back end or the sync/encryption parts into a library that you open source, which would give a bit more trust that you have actually done the right things.
Did it end up blazingly fast? :D
Doing a port as your first rust project is a brutal was to start, and im guessing will result in some pretty sketchy rust code. Good luck though :)
Signed up, is the app open source?
Cloudkeys are the low end, only support 20ish cameras. You don't have to go full dream machine or whatever their top end stuff is. Still, expensive.
Thin MDF is good for laser cutting. If they are large sheets, someone might want it.
And its usually loaded in line with your spine, rather than sideways.