A lot of hobbies are like this where people can start with lower cost options and then upgrade.
On my journey I was using a blade grinder for a while and I think it's a good starting place, but when setting up to a burr grinder, I recommend to not go entry level, mid level is going to yield a better investment.
I picked up the Encore ESP for the following reasons:
I'm lazy and would be tired of manual grinding
Coffee making not exclusive to me in the home
Nice set of burrs and easy to clean
Ability to add bellow to decrease retention
Equal to price of a months coffee if going out
For machines, the aeropress is a great low effort and cost entry to making great tasting coffee.
This looks like a way better interface over Synology photos which is fine, but missing the search and map feature. You need to see if they are hiring 😂
Ok, sure, but some pro-life states make you have kids even if you don't want to continue with the pregnancy. So this may cause unfit parents to exist due to government policies.
I prefer American spying, but honestly I'm not sure it matters. All these countries need to do is hack Google and Meta hard enough and they get all the info they need. No need to waste time on spy garlic.
I would vote for running jellyfish off the NAS with powerful hardware Intel 8th Gen and up you should be fine. I personally don't transcode video on my server only audio.
If I'm not sure about a video format working, I'll manually re-encode the video with handbrake to h265 or av1. I also have used handbrake to create lower resolution copies of the same movies to reduce bandwidth needs when roaming on LTE.
I think you would have the issue of getting closer to the beans, but might be worth a try if you already have one.