Youtube, it just has way more content than any libre platform

Well, yes I looked at tailscale too, but that would prevent me from using my normal commercial VPN, which I would still like to use. The way I understand it, if I routed my entire network through tailscale to my server, it would essentially make all my internet traffic exit at my server. So, everything would still appear to be coming from my home IP address. I’m trying to get the best of 2 worlds: using the VPN to hide my IP from services that i visit and my ISP, and a secure connection to my home server.

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You could still use a virtual machine for those games and or functions that you still need. I mean a kernel vm.

Well if you temper your expectations sure. Can't expect frontier performance from a average gaming pc, but it is enough to do a lot more than you think probably. This video on the topic I found really informative: https://youtu.be/ydFikMBJG1g EDIT: Also I've been using gemma4:31b from duck.ai lately that I've found is excellent for almost everything I use AI for. Except maybe long context.

Oh thanks, will keep in mind for other posts.

I would agree, but that flow is through google play services not through the system itself, so google can just remove it whenever they want.

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For me they did not work for a while but recently they updated their apps and now it works fully.

I wish they could be thrown out, but I don't think that's possible right now. Europe is still way too reliant on the US to do anything like that, imo.

WhatsApp notifications work without gplay on graphene.

You can use the border router UI to provision the devices with the ID on the device if your server has a bluetooth adapter. I did it this way can't give you more details as I'm currently not home