I'd DIY it (maybe with FreeNAS, about which I know nothing) instead of buying a proprietary NAS in a box. What's the point of self-hosting if you're going to be at the mercy of someone else's software anyway? If you're DIY'ing, there are 3.5" drive enclosures with soundproofing stuff in them that should keep the drive pretty quiet. Or if you can afford enough SSD's for your storage requirements, then use those.
Water from the kitchen faucet. I better not tell them though. Some TikTok post about it will go viral and that will be the end of it for those of us who just want to stay hydrated in peace.
In the backup world, 50TB isn't really a lot, and you're not really ready to talk about tape systems or maintaining an always-on disk system. Also, HDD's have been getting more expensive due to AI idiocy. But, cheapest is probably a second raid system, like 4x 20tb drives. Do the backup at home and then move the backup system off site and either keep it spinning, or make sure to spin up and test the individual drives every so often.
Depression means no money, not particularly shortages of physical stuff. If you're trying to do a prepper thing that's fine, but it's different. There are tons of web sites and other materials out there about that.
"The all-electric Dacia Spring now starts at just €11,900 (around $13,900), thanks to a massive €5,000 (around $5,900 at current exchange rates) discount."
Usually you do this with venv. I'm sure there's a cool kids way to automate everything but it's not that hard to just download 3.10 (or whatever version you need), compile it, install it into a 3.10 directory, and point your path at it.
I don't like Gnome either. I've been using MATE which is pretty straightforward, and looks like old-fashioned Windows. Not saying that's a good thing, but at least for me it had very little learning curve.
If that project requires Python 3.10 and won't work with 3.13, that may be a problem in its own right.
If you're unfamiliar with PostScript or basic linear algebra, I would start by reading a book or tutorial on PostScript. Not to know how to produce PostScript output, but rather to understand how it handles coordinate transformations. So your drawing program can have nested objects with a transformation for each object, and the transformations compose through the nesting levels. Then you can rotate and scale complicated figures by just changing a single transformation, which is a 2x3 matrix. It's really 3x3 but in "homogenous coordinates" so you only have to store 6 of the numbers.
Obviously, also play with other drawing programs to get ideas for what you want yours to do.
There are also tons of books on computer graphics, though maybe not specifically about drawing programs. The ones I've looked at are way old by now though.
This is big stupid drama but there's a long thread about it on hackernews.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488