Since you’re using prowlarr, I recommend adding as many as you can. You’ll get some stall, but that’s the price you (don’t) pay. If you have the time, choose several baseurls for the failing indexers so you can get as many as possible.

I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.

It can feel like a lot of money up front, but it really is just up front. If you consider the subscription services and compare that to the life of your hardware, you’re in good shape. With the amount of media we consume, my family has paid it off months ago.

Immich is fantastic. I’d been using Nextcloud for photos, but, like many monolithic software suites, it lacks many features. I’d also been using Spotify for notifications, but I’ve abandoned it and ran to Matrix. I’ll have to try ntfy.

HomeAssistant can be great, though it does require some yaml-fu for notifications and such. At one point I had it use TTS for notifications.

Dude, yes! Subscriptions are a scam. They hold your downloads at ransom.

Yeah, there’s always a child-like fascination with technology. Do you ever feel like making it a career would’ve taken the joy out of it? My bro is IT and it somewhat did for him.

Sorry to hear. On the upside, no one will be upset when the server goes down.

That’s the way to go! I’m sure you didn’t want to go back to Windows after a while. That was the start for me, too, back with Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope.