The services you’ve mentioned are all pretty low compute impact, just bandwidth, so I’d expect your MBP to be fine. Transcoding for jellyfin is the only real wildcard, and that depends on your media and client setups. I run pihole, homeassistant, immich, and kodi on a raspberry pi 4 with plenty of overhead for more services. NAS is nice if your library outgrows a single disk and your storage bandwidth gets choked by USB multiplexing.

My suggestion is to consider a cheap VPS and vanity domain for external access. Domains cheap as $5/year; fair VPSs cheap as $30/year. Use SSH to forward localhost ports on the VPS to container ports on the MBP, then nginx on thee VPS to reverse-proxy to those forwarded ports. You get unique names for every service, LetsEncrypt certificates, and an offsite location for critical backups. Make sure you are the one paying for VPS & DNS so they don’t get surprise-cancelled.

Falafel: dried chickpeas with garlic & parsley fried in oil. Very high calorie/cost, because the chickpeas are basically oil sponges, and it’s hard to beat vegetable oil on calories/cost. $1.50 for 1000 calories.

Kimchi fried rice: Kimchi, rice, couple of fried eggs for protein. $2.10 for 1000 calories. Make your own kimchi even cheaper.

Chili noodles: cheap, store-brand spaghetti with chili oil-soy sauce dressing. Don’t sub ramen for pasta - that stuff’s expensive. $2.50/1000 cal. Make your own chili oil for extra savings.

These data are released on the first of each month. That’s not a lot of time to tabulate, across all employers across the whole country, all the people hired and fired during the month. That’s why they call the 2 previous months ‘preliminary.’ They’re usually pretty good at estimating, and adjusting their estimates for the usual sources of error, but when conditions change dramatically, those fudge factors aren’t so good.

So, if you’ve got a President out there making wild, often contradictory claims three times a week, market traders and corporate execs trying to plan based on those announcements, or just put off by the uncertainty, then you should expect ‘preliminary’ statistics to be worse guesses than usual.

Putting the scan on the internet intact would be piracy. Putting up snippets is mostly OK. Ingesting the scans of millions of books into a massive data set and then regurgitating pieces of the masticated, processed mess seems still to be a grey area, but closer to ‘mostly OK’ than to piracy.

It was worth $80 to a few pre-orderers, but not enough for the market analysts to project a profitable launch.

In monopoly capitalism, the prices are all made up numbers, especially for digital goods, with very little to do with what they cost. If they don’t get enough preorders at $70, they’ll either drop it to $60 or cancel it altogether to maintain “$70 market conditions.”

My impression is that the reason team Biden went after Maxwell first is that Epstein’s documents are not super-compelling evidence on their own. They really wanted to flip Maxwell to explain the documents, but weren’t willing to give her whatever deal she was asking for. I feel like she’s just trying the same plan with the new administration, now that they’re under higher pressure (and possibly interested in more selective prosecutions).

They will say that Biden had those files for 4 years. Anything could have happened.

Part of “less crime in the sticks” is a population effect. The rate of violent crime in New York City is 494/100,000 people. The rate of violent crime in the whole state of Alabama, from its stickiest sticks to the 225,000-resident Huntsville metropolis, is 404/100,000, which isn’t that different, in my book.

I’d also like to think that a lot of the late night guys - Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel, etc - could do just as well on…their own web site, some streaming service, whatever. Colbert’s announcement said the Late Show is 200 people. Writers, researchers, graphics, all the mechanics of just shooting and editing the show. 200 people is at least $10M/year (without Colbert’s own salary). The hosts themselves are (obviously) funny people, but they’ve all got a dozen or a score of really good writers backing them up. Researchers to find the funny clips or kick in topics. Their content will suffer without that machine.

Maybe one or two of these big names could recruit a paying audience big enough to manage that, but they’re not going to pay it out of their own pocket for long. They’re decamillionaires, not billionaires.