I don’t think the track did that much to make new jazz fans, really. I think the thing it had in its favor in the US was that it was more radio-friendly than some of the other jazz rap and could be marketed to a wider audience, but jazz rap was not new when “Cantaloop” was released. Not knocking it, I love the track and thought it was well produced, but if it created any jazz fans it was probably less about the production and more likely because of how much airplay it had in the US. If anything, it made more rap fans than jazz fans.

But the overall premise has merit. Personally, if it weren’t for early to mid-nineties hip-hop, I would have never discovered all the old jazz (soul, and funk) I listen to today.

If you want a recommendation, Madlib’s Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note, an album full of jazz songs remixed by a hip-hop producer. Madlib even has his own jazz side project, Yesterday’s New Quintet that I think is worth a listen. His whole catalog is full of jazz influences.

There is a fan-made version on itch.io.

You aren’t wrong, but this is a shitpost.

Its named FOG because it is a “free, open-source (Norton) Ghost.” It uses iPXE to netboot a minimal Linux environment that can clone or restore a hard disk image. It includes a web UI for managing machines and disk images, among other things. There is also a client you can install on machines to remotely administer them.

It is very similar to DRBL/Clonezilla but for a slightly different purpose.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/5057-understanding-how-marginal-taxes-work-its-all-part

I think you can find it for sale on AliExpress by searching for ‘Topton N100 NAS motherboard.’

“Do you have a favorite? Me? It’s hard to choose. They’re all my children.”

Like this?

PiKVM or a similar device could work for OP - is that what you are thinking of? I’ve used it and it works well.

I think a lot of people who self-host get caught up in the excitement of getting the services up and running and neglect disaster planning, prevention, and recovery (myself included). Either they put it off for later or don’t realize it could be a problem down the road until it happens. We always say not to self host anything you can’t live without, and most take that advice, others don’t. Not saying OP falls in either category, necessarily, just adding on to some of your points.

Self hosting really is the land of compromise where we all have to balance our requirements, budget, time and effort. Personally, I have a little disposable income that I spend on hardware to host non-critical services so I can learn and tinker. It could all go away and all I will have lost is the time and money I put into it, but I gained some knowledge and enjoyment. Needless to say, I don’t have much in the way of backups and monitoring.

Not OP, but looks like the Geekworm KVM-A8. They also make a version using the CM4.