I have both, Apple TV 4K and Shield TV Pro, both have strengths and weaknesses. Being able to use my AirPods with one click on the ATV is super nice, I also use it for Apple Music (with Atmos). The Shield is more capable, I am using Projectivy Launcher, autostart Plex on boot and it just works with all the codecs I ever needed. The ads are bad, but Android still allows you to change the Launcher (you only have to uninstall the stock launcher with adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package> ).

I use Reeder on iOS and if I get to the bottom of a list, I get an option to mark everything as read.

But personally, I go through the articles kind of like videos on TikTok and read only those that sound interesting.

I created an Xpenology VM inside my new Unraid server and copied my files with 10Gbps internally.

First of all: not everyone can publish port 80/443 or even has a public IP.

3 Devices: Main, Storage and Compute

• Main is a Futro S740 running Debian, it handles my Cloudflare Tunnel, Nginx Proxy Manager, Git (Forgejo), Portainer, Paperless and some smaller services. Debian just like others said, rock solid, super small and just works.

• Storage is a custom built Unraid Server with an ASRock N100M, an SSD and a bunch of HDDs, it runs Plex and some Media related containers. Unraid is amazing as it turns off the drives and only spins up the one drive that has the file I want to stream. I get under 17W at idle with 9 HDDs with no stream running.

• Compute is an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux Fedora. This one has a Minecraft server, Immich, Handbrake to transcode. Things that need a little more horsepower.

All systems have their pros and cons, I wish there was another Server OS like Unraid that had a great WebUI just like Unraid, but others like TrueNAS put their focus on ZFS, which is great but not for power efficiency.

Your post is very confusing. You want to use it only locally (on your home), but it can’t be a local-only instance.

You want to e2ee everything, but fail to mention why. There is no reason to do that on your own network.

I do not know why you want to use a VPN and what you want to do with it. Where do you want to connect to?

What is the attack vector you’re worried about? Are there malicious entities on your network?