The whole reason I took this job is the stake in the company

Man I was suppressing the red flags up until now; this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You are going to get shafted at this job. It might be because someone is embezzling, they’re committing fraud in their manufacturing processes, or one of the owners is going to cut and run and leave the rest of you holding the bag. Maybe one day you’ll just show up and the doors are all locked.

You need to do absolutely everything by the book, document, document, document, CYA, and in a way that when shit goes south you’ll still have that documentation. And always have an exit plan.

There are plenty of document management solutions. What is the actual problem you’re trying to solve? Not just “it’s a mess” because I can solve that with a trash can. What are the needs of the users?

The value in those products is that it takes much less management, brings much greater reliability, and support teams if you have issues. If your dinky NAS shits the bed, the company’s data is gone, the company is kaput, you are all out of a job.

Of course there is a middle ground. I know there are plenty of open-source hosted products. They’re still subscriptions, but that monthly expense probably comes out cheaper than the time and effort building and maintaining your custom systems.

If you still really want to host it yourself, make sure you run through your disaster and recovery scenarios. You will have to have a 3-2-1 backup system. And remember because shit will go wrong, two is one, and one is none. That includes you personally, in the event you get hit by a bus lottery.

I would recommend an actual Dell tower server with idrac for remote management, and with prosupport for when something blows up (sometimes literally, I had one PSU go bang on a server under my desk at one point). Fill it with enough disks for redundancy and data growth for the next few years, but leaving room for expansion. Put your favorite hypervisor on it, set up some vms or containers to run those services, test backups, and document everything so that a semi-trained monkey can follow it.

But don’t host your own email. Getting each individual email server to not consider you spam is a Sisyphean task.

For business? What’s the value to the business over services like Office 365?

Personally, unless there’s a very good reason for it, I strongly recommend against this. I used to work for a company that did business IT, and there were far too many times we got called in to take over for a guy that did it himself and got in over his head, left the company, or just plain died, and it ended up costing the company much more in the long run.

Unfucking a Bethesda game with day-one mods is a time-honored tradition. Toddition.

That is, in fact, how game engines work, if the game logic and renderer are decoupled. Usually they’re not too tightly coupled in the first place, but Unreal is specifically designed to be used in more than just games.

French doesn’t deserve such nice treatment. They’re not even using those letters!

Not really. The user has full control over the PC, and they could completely image and restore the whole drive. There’s no way you could detect that without an outside reference point.

The simplest way is to run it in Docker. It’s another step to learn, but it’s much easier. I’d recommend the linuxserver.io container via docker-compose: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-plex/#docker-compose-recommended-click-here-for-more-info

I’d also recommend taking the opportunity to switch to Jellyfin. It’s not quite as polished, but in my experience it’s more stable (only had to reset my library once) and the devs aren’t enshittifying the project.

Can you play online with your friends?

Probably not the only one, but there’s not very many of you, because there are plenty of engines. Unreal, Unity (rip), and Godot are the big general-purpose ones, for good reason: they’re modern, powerful, and most importantly easy to work with. But there’s also Source, CryEngine, Frostbite, id Tech, and many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

¿Que dumbasses?

It comes from not using huge amounts of water to grow water-intensive crops in the California desert.

This is them going into IPO mode.

Matrix is a reasonable replacement.

He doesn’t think at all.

I’m not aware of any existing products, but this sounds like you could knock it out in a day writing it yourself.

It sounds like you just need better sources for downloads. Radarr has quality settings but they’re not especially accurate. I’ve mostly left those settings alone and added some good torrent and usenet sources.

It looks like it’s an open request on Mealie. I don’t see one for Tandoor. Shame, because Mealie already has aliases for ingredients, it shouldn’t be too hard to extend that to respect the language setting.

No, that would probably be Valve. Several fan mods became full games in their own right (Counter-Strike, Black Mesa). Others were mods of non-Valve games (Team Fortress, Dota 2 (sort of)).

Honestly that’s probably true. Killing them with kindness. If they all have this for free, they may not have much motivation to continue.