The issue is that I can't really fit all of the data somewhere else. Can I shove it onto the 4TB drive and then mount it on a new proxmox install and recover from there?

It might not be, but I am intimately familiar with it. It's proxmox itself that's the wildcard here. I will shrink the LVM and then DD it to the new disk.

Couldn't I just shrink a partition myself? I could clone the LXCs to the 4TB drive and just shrink the LVM partition significantly. DD the disks, recreate the LVM on the new SSD and move em back, right?

Using a larger disk isn't an option, unfortunately. I don't have that kind of money.

real-time tracking of

everything

Cheaters are a solved problem, in my opinion. It used to be that people hosted servers- moderating and managing their own communities. The industry went away from that in pursuit of cosmetics and control. There aren't cheaters on well managed community servers in Valve games, but cheaters run rampant in matchmaking in those same games.

There is a whole separate lemmyverse full of conservatives and pedophilia. They are defederated from every sane instance.

If the torrenting is moved entirely within Tor, and pirates hosted Relays alongside their seedboxes, then we would have the bandwidth to sustain it and not be constrained by the exit relays.

Hosting videogames on a dedicated box for me and the boys when I was 16 got me more interested in networking and when I had finished my mostly unrelated education, I pivoted hard to IT. I don't currently work in IT and I don't know if I ever will again because my handicap and location make it hard to find jobs but essentially:

Self-hosting came first, then came the tech 'background'.

feralhosting.com gives you a full unix user in your own little jail if that's your thing. They are for seedboxes, but you can do anything you want with your 1 vcore and unmetered 10gbps.

I think last.fm is generally pretty good at recommending me stuff.

e does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.

Wube has encouraged people to pirate their game over buying key-resellers like G2A. G2A was such a legal pain in their ass for a period that they would rather you just pirate the game (being Factorio).