Not sure what you're asking, but can you use git hooks? What is the purpose of the mirror: for backup, for remote listening, or what? If the mirror is the permanent home for the files, you should keep the lossless version there. Is the lossy conversion just to reduce upload bandwidth? How did you get the lossless files onto the client to begin with?
If I imagine this setup, the lossless versions would live on the server, lossy compression would also be done on the server, and then the client could download either version.
I think version control isn't really what you want, since you normally won't have multiple revisions of the same file.
Maybe you could look at git-annex for handling the large binaries in your git repo.
I've never used Discord -- is it similar to Mumble? I tried Jami but found it too unreliable to recommend. What about Nextcloud Chat? I do use that though it is kind of clumsy.
I have a family friend who comes over with her 2 kids sometimes and it's not so bad. Alternatively, if you want to catch up more personally than you can over text, but without dealing with a meetup with kids, you might suggest a voice phone call. Phone calls are sort of a lost technology but they still are better than text or email for some kinds of things. If you do the phone call, be honest about why.
No idea about the VPN stuff but I just don't have the brain cells to spare for watching a Star Wars TV show. I watched the first 3 movies (Luke blows up the Death Star twice) and the first of the prequel movies (the one with Jar Jar) and gave up on the whole franchise after that. I only recently found out from Wookiepedia the amount of spin-offs and sidehows the thing has spawned. I still love this though (music video compressing the whole prequel series to 6 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvlTVgeivU
I wouldn't feel any need to discuss something like that in public. If I felt reasonably convinced that someone was being abused, I'd probably flag the FBI. Otherwise if you insist, I'm sure there there are pr0n forums. In fact Lemmy has an NSFW instance lemmynsfw.com. Stuff from there keeps showing up on lemmy.world's front page.
Is Andor (I keep wanting to write it And/or) a Disney thing? Is Disney not part of the Empire? They must consider the Republic and/or Rebel Alliance to be neutralized if they are willing to sell this product.
You must be kidding. A scroll-through and peek at the contents shows that it's at best in the wrong place. Plus way too long for most readers' eyeballs to not fall out.
This looks like some kind of weird AI slop, sorry.