I'm using a prebuilt docker container that I assume must have come with all the appropriate codecs lined up. If you spun up your own container or installed it directly on your host OS, you may be missing some, I suppose. Without seeing the logs I couldn't tell you more (not that I'm some kind of self-hosting master, myself), but that seems like a pretty good lead.

Maybe try adding the files in 10 TB batches or something. My library is approaching that size, and no issues here. Could be tripping up on a specific file or something. I know Jellyfin can be a little particular about folder hierarchy and naming conventions, too.

Collection is often on a schedule so it gets emptied regardless.

It may very well be the case that most American businesses pay by the pound, ton, or bin. I don't know. I do know that in some cases it's a fixed cost, up to the size of a bin within a certain time period, anyway.

Sure, but they have stuff to throw away other than food, too, so they're paying for it regardless. Some places in the US make property owners pay for waste disposal separately, but even then it could be a flat fee so the business wouldn't gain anything by throwing less stuff away. Some places just include it in property taxes, in which case, again, the business wouldn't gain anything.

The torch of science and learning was passed from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine, and then the Muslim caliphates (principally the Abbasid Caliphate). Europe saw its resurgence beginning in the 15th century as the Islamic world declined following the reconquest of Spain. What followed was colonialism which slowly and systematically dismantled existing power structures in most of the world outside of Europe, culminating, perhaps, in WWI with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the last center of the once great Islamic culture. Around the beginning of the 20th century at the peak of European empire, Middle Eastern oil reserves were discovered, cementing the fate of the region as the center of global struggles over energy dominance in which the Islamic powers were not equipped to compete, having already been colonized or weakened in conflicts with European powers.

Religion is a well of hope for otherwise hopeless people. It is no surprise that colonized peoples turn to it en masse.

The government could pass a law (GASP!!!) requiring license agreements to be transferable. But capitalists aren't actually interested in free markets, are they?

Easier & cheaper to just throw it away, so most businesses probably don't bother. We would need to mandate and/or subsidize this behavior if we wanted people to actually do it.

ohh myyy

A typical work day of managing construction contracts puts me through all of these.

$60/month doesn't seem that strange for a 1 bedroom apartment.

I found a 1br in Springfield, MA for $1750 after 10 seconds of searching.

Look up the Powell Memo. There has been a 50 year project to dismantle government oversight of business with the aim of maximizing profits and externalizing costs and we are near its conclusion. Primarily the work of this project has been done by judges hand-picked for their ideological commitment, often through the Federalist Society. A good, more recent example is when Obama attempted to increase the salary cutoff where employers must pay overtime wages from $23k to $46k per year. Employers would just call their employees managers and get around the Davis Bacon Act and not have to pay OT to people making over $23k, even if those people were doing work that would otherwise be wage labor. A business lobbying group challenged the rule and found a federal judge in East Bumfuck, Texas who put a hold on it, and then it was killed by Trump. Democrats have effectively been controlled (via the judiciary) opposition since the 90s, but I have some hope that there are more Democrats coming up who understand what needs to be done. There is power in Congress and the White House to do something about all this, Democrats just need to wield it as freely as the Republicans do when they take power. The Biden administration was actually decent at this stuff. It's a shame he was senile by the end and too proud to give up power to another Democrat that would have stood a chance, until it was way too late, anyway.