If someone said ‘I really admire your passion for self exploration’ in a genuine conversation, I would think they were on drugs.

I pay for YouTube Premium. I get a lot of value from it, and streaming video isn’t cheap. I don’t think it’s reasonable for anyone to think they should provide it for free.

I think my eyes just rolled out of my head.

They had another article a couple of weeks ago about abolishing landlords instead of building more houses. It was total rubbish, completely misunderstood housing supply, but had a good title. That was also a vaguely concealed advert for a book.

The Guardian used to be a good paper.

Mail is the single thing that I absolutely refuse to self-host. Been there, got the scars.

You could try setting adguard to listen on all interfaces?

I wouldn’t make any storage accessible to the internet without VPN.

Might not be technically what you are asking for, but you really can’t go wrong with Synology for this stuff.