What exactly is an external drive case? Are you just talking about a USB enclosure for a single drive or something that can somehow hold multiple drives and interface over something more stable than USB?
Joplin will do this for you. It comes ready to sync with all sorts of cloud options, as well as "local folder" which works well with Syncthing. It's offline-first, cross-platform, and FOSS.
This all appears to be based on the user agent, so wouldn't that mean that bad-faith scrapers could just declare themselves to be typical search engine user agent?
I've been thinking about setting up Anubis to protect my blog from AI scrapers, but I'm not clear on whether this would also block search engines. It would, wouldn't it?
As someone else said here, programmers are not a monolith. However, I've seen it multiple times on the job and in social media where programmers are using these tools to write code voluntarily. The code produced is often garbage, and I have to reject it at review time, but there are a lot of programmers using these things willingly.
Kodi on an old laptop under the TV so we can watch said files.
Syncthing on our phones and laptops to pull films from there onto that file server.
The only difference is that I'm using a Synology 'cause I have 15TB and don't know how to do RAID myself, let alone how to do it with an old laptop. I can't really recommend a Synology though. It's got too many useless add-ons and simple tools like rsync never work properly with it.
TL;DR: it's 10-50x more efficient at cleaning the air and actually generates both electricity and fertiliser.
Yes, it would be better to just get rid of all the cars generating the pollution in the first place and putting in some more trees, but there are clear advantages to this.
It's a rather brilliant idea really, but when you consider the environmental implications of forcing web requests to ensure proof of work to function, this effectively burns a more coal for every site that implements it.
I didn't even know there was a Firefox extension! I might give it a look.