I also went through the phase where I thought I was an audiophile/videophile and everything I collected needed to be in ultra high quality. Eventually I realized it was stupid and now I spend a third as much money on storage and still have perfectly fine media that I have no issues with in practice despite the flaws I’m supposed to see in theory.

you’ll do nothing but bloat the file size

That’s very wrong. Going from h.264 to h.265 cuts file size down to 25-50% of the original. That’s what the HE is for in HEVC.

“Kids don’t want good shows, they want slop TV they can put on in the background while they’re on their phones”, says Netflix.

No it isn’t. It’s removing a batch script they used to provide as a shortcut to invoke the functionality. Until now they’ve been handholding people to streamline use of their less preferred feature and they’re no longer doing that. But by all means take the headline ragebait.

Yes, you can run the web server locally and access it in your browser like any other site. You just wouldn’t be able to access it from outside your home network.

Since you want to be able to access these stories as well as store them, you can kill two birds with one stone by creating a Django app with a SQLite backend. The builtin admin site will let you browse and search the content without having to write much code.

I am begging people, stop watching the absolute worst Chris Pratt shit they dump on your home screen and then this money will have to be spent on movies that actually try to be good.

What business is it of yours to make someone explain their software use? I don’t touch Chrome, I primarily use Firefox, and I use Edge as a secondary browser. Is that acceptable?