Your question is a bit all over the place.

If you’re just looking for big amounts of storage, look for refurbished HDDs (4TB, 12TB, something like that).

Ah yes, true. But it is a whole year, so you’d only need to login once a year.

And what would be a situation where you have to enter a phone number? I only know it’s optional for account recovery.

As far as I know they delete the account if you don’t log in for a few months.

I mean, without the additional requirement Proton may be sufficient.

What I always do is I have my yellow belt production that outputs into a chest which is then used for red belts. Then if you upgrade that chest to a yellow chest, the yellow belts from your trash slots are automatically put into it, you don’t even need to set a filter.

But yes, if you are using bots you need a circuit condition so it doesn’t use all of the items in the chest. To do that you only need a singular cable though, you directly connect the chest to the red belt inserter. Still the option I would recommend. Looks really clean.

I don’t see how playing on peaceful would be a problem in the update. Should be fine.

While it’s nice to have, I don’t think it should be normal to expect train drivers to work all night, especially on holidays.