not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.
Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.
Would you have any recommendations on hardware?
Yup!
No matter what external storage you buy be it an external drive / NAS / SAN / whatever, make sure you buy a UPS firstly. I dunno about where you live, but here the amount of “brownouts” through the night damages electronic gear irrevocably and I learnt my lesson.
Best investment(s) ever.
Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee so that lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users.
Another option was to leave the licence fee largely as it is, with a few tweaks, but with better enforcement, a person familiar with the internal deliberations said.
These greedy people, honest to god.
How about a tweak of letting home owners re-transmitting the DVB signal locally since they have such a good home internet connections these days, saving on the required transmitting POWAR of the BBC funded ones such as Emley Moor etc? I’d love to see the power usage of that thing.
Too radical, oh well…
I started with a small APC UPS which most protect drives/devices from anything from a brownout to full power cut for you to power down those devices.
I protect my NAS / router / modem which the former has a USB port that can connect to the UPS via a data port and allows it to monitor the battery level and, if it sees it getting to a
Xlow power level emails me and then shuts it down gracefully. Awesome thingys and there’s other ways of monitoring themhttps://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-nut-server/
Have fun emptying your wallet ;)