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And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications

So they basically stream what is being broadcast on these channels to you? What does it cost? I have friends who watch sports too, if it's cheaper it might be worth it if I set it up for them on my server.

I just have it accessible through my domain. IPTV is interesting but I have no idea how it works.

I was using streaming-based sites the first few years because it was easy but it had its issues. With uBlock Origin, ads and popups weren't a problem anymore but there were still issues like bad quality, buffering and your progress in a show not being tracked. This promptet me to try out Jellyfin with the arr stack and it's so much better. I had to get used to having to wait for shows and movies to download before being able to watch them but the experience was so much better aside from that. Great quality, a nice interface where your progress is tracked, everything loads perfectly fine, I can make accounts for friends and family and no ads or shit like that. It took some time to perfect my setup but now I have a lot of private torrent trackers and usenet and I can get pretty much everything I want to watch, even in German, in the best quality that is available, especially when something's available in AV1.

You need time, knowledge and money to get a setup as good as I have and it's worth it for me personally (selfhosting is also my main hobby, after all) but most people don't have all that, so I can understand why doing it like this is a pretty niche thing and why not a lot of people are doing it nowadays.

To make matters worse, many Chinese devices just kill everything in the background that's not on a hard coded whitelist.

Looking at Xiaomi's Miui here. My last phone was a Xiaomi one and it was great. It didn't take long for me to install LineageOS on it tho because Miui is horrible. It killed every app you had opened the second you switched to another one. Things like email verification codes were literally impossible to enter into an app because when you went into your mail app, copied the code and then went back into the app you wanted to enter it in, that app would have to start up again because it was already killed in the background.

Also, Miui itself used up like half my RAM without anything being opened and it was buggy as hell.

it has stupid things like weekdays sorted alphabetically

Holy shit, that's stupid. Why would you even do this in the first place?! I can't comprehend how anyone could come to the conclusion that that's a good way to sort it.

If you want to watch YouTube in a more privacy friendly way and without an account, there's also LibreTube

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).

I wonder why they don't just have Monero as an option