I’ve had good experiences with both WD and Seagate. According to industry, most HDDs will last at least 3-5 years if they are used regularly, but you can also monitor their health via a number of tools for better lifespan estimation, e.g. smartctl and smartd on Linux. Risk management and a good hardware failure mitigation strategy will ultimately help protect your data for the long run though.
Kodi is a great platform if you have something like an odroid or raspberry pi to run it on
RIP everynoise. The creator worked at Spotify doing cool algorithm stuff, but when AI came about Spotify sacked em and denied the API connections that fed the site
There’s a few big names, I usually find it interesting seeing which instances people are on and whether they carry some kind of theme. The people in the Star Trek instance, forget the name, usually have pretty good memes for example
Read the book not realizing the film satirizes the book and kept waiting for some kind of punchline. Finished thinking “wait, the author was serious?”