I’ve used it when I started out and it’s good, I can recommend it if you just want something where you can hit install and it works. I just use docker containers now though because I have more experience and it allows to set everything up exactly how I want.

I just don’t think it looks very good. I know that everyone has different tastes of what looks good but I personally love modern design when it comes to UI and IMO Android was the best looking OS UI and right after that GNOME. But part of why I think both of them look so good and why I think they even look better than Apples design, is that they don’t use blur. I don’t think it really fits into the Material 3 design language.

I just hope you can enable that without needing to activate that “Advanced Protection” thing because no sideloading sucks

Pretty sure Vencord is what’s used now. It’s what I use at least because it’s preinstalled with Vesktop.

The problem with phones is just the battery. The battery is probably not getting bypassed when charging, so when you just leave it running for a long time without looking at it, that might be a safety issue. But I’m also just guessing, I don’t know if it’s really that dangerous.

I use Thunder too, I like it. But you accidentally added a space in the first hyperlink, so it’s not rendered correctly.

On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube’s directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.

My parents bought Xiaomi TV box (could search for the exact name if anyone’s interested), which runs GoogleTV (Which is just AndroidTV, they renamed for some reason) and comes with a remote. It even has hardware acceleration for AV1 playback. Downside is of course that it has all the Google spying shit and ads in the home menu but at least it works well and you can use all the apps you want without issue. Idk if there’s something like LineageOS for AndroidTV, that would be great.

I use a refurbished 10tb HDD for my server too and it works just fine

If it’s not available as an application, you should probably look into docker compose

In GNOME you just need to log in with your Nextcloud account in the system settings and it will add it in the file manager

There’s a project called Watchtower that is specifically for auto-updating docker-compose containers

It’s just that I only read manga on my phone anyway (even though that might be because it’s not synced between devices) and I’ve never had the issue that an online source went offline. I just thought that maybe there are other reasons, like how you can get way better quality when you self host something like Jellyfin for movies and shows.

A mini-pc with an Intel N100 will be a little more expensive (I bought one for ~150€) but it’s about 5-6 times faster than the Pi and mine also came with 16gb of RAM and a 500gb SSD. It requires very little power and because of that, it’s also very quiet. AV1 decode is also great if you plan to run something like Kodi on it or you want to do transcoding from an AV1 video with Jellyfin (I haven’t migrated those to it yet, so I don’t know how well it works in practice). I’m not sure but it might not even be a lot more expensive than a Pi with 8gb of RAM and an additional 500gb SSD.

You just need the docker and docker-compose packages. You make a docker-compose.yml file and there you define all settings for the container (image, ports, volumes, …). Then you run docker-compose up -d in the directory where that file is located and it will automatically create the docker container and run it with the settings you defined. If you make changes to the file and run the command again, it will update the container to use the new settings. In this command docker-compose is just the software that allows you to do all this with the docker-compose.yml file, up means it’s bringing the container up (which means starting it) and -d is for detached, so it does that in the background (it will still tell you in the terminal what it’s doing while creating the container).