I usually fall asleep to watching YouTube preferably adfree on my TV, screen mirroring can heat up the device, so for that sake I would probably need something like an Apple TV if chromecast just gives me ads

Ahh, how come you bought an apple tv? Aint they expensive?:)

I respect it

Really? I thought using official YouTube stuff gave ads when casting, could just be a chromecast thing tho, what do you cast to?

Would love an alternative to GrayJay on iOS that lets me cast to tv

I switched to Summit for now, been great

I am currently trying out Summit, crazy nice app so far

Voyager looks really good on Android, heard about it being on iOS too. I’ve been trying out Alexandite as UI on desktop

Now it would be interesting to setup a raspberry pi with harddrives plugged in the USB 3 ports💡

Wasn’t exactly this talked about a few years ago?

I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only

How does the user tags feature work?

On your phone?

Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad

I’ve been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?

I actually use newpipe for casting to my chromecast at the moment so I see the appeal

Regarding Apple, That’s what I feel too, but I don’t feel like going Pixel and GrapheneOS or fairphone etc.

But I still want to optimize my privacy and move to open source alternatives where I can without sacrificing too much

You make a good point tbh

That’s a struggle, but I’ve heard of some great music storage self hosting services out there, can’t remember the names of any atm tho

There is also the option of sideloading a modded YouTube client for the adblock aspect.

I was thinking about getting 256GB version of the phone and self hosting a storage solution, but I ain’t got the server to do that yet, might aswell pay for icloud drive until I finish my studies. Luckily I dont need alot of storage, just need the security of having stuff backed up.

I also selfhost adguard home over my home network.

Yeah I guess getting hate for choosing Apple is fair, I was anti-apple a few years ago but now I would rather get rid of Google, and ios isnt bad nowadays either for my use cases.

I could just go for a fairphone tho with /e/OS tho