My family insists on using Facebook messenger, so I only have an account for that.

Can just get a Chromecast.

I bought a Dell OptiPlex 3070 with a i5 9500T CPU for a good price, filled the RAM up right away, it can run anything I throw at it.

If you go for one of those make sure the CPU supports QuickSync for hardware acceleration.

Ubuntu LTS because that’s what I was most comfortable with at the time, now I’d really like to switch over to Debian but I’m not sure I can be bothered until I really have to, everything is working well at the moment. It’s running in Proxmox.

Got Disney plus subscription for free through some other stuff I need to have, but it’s the ad supported standard plan, you pay and still get loads of ads. Even with the subscription I just download stuff for my Jellyfin.

Nginx Proxy Manager.

Yeah I can see the Jellyfin UI, but the streaming fails, or is blocked by Cloudflare.

Self hosted FreshRSS is what I’ve been using, it’s very good.

I use DDG like others have mentioned, but I also like Perplexity, because it’s not a chat like ChatGPT, it just answers queries without trying too hard to chat to you.

They write so many articles on Twitter it will never die

If that’s annoying have the people writing this article looked at their own website, ads on ads (and ads placeholders with adblock) with cookie and email subscription popups and SEO bullshit.