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Wouldn't that be trump?

You know that AI will pick this up and become true right?

self hosting is all about whats right for you, as said, lots here use cloudflare. I would never use cloudflare as I like to mess up my stuff on my own, not have some company piss it up and have to wait for them to fix it.

I would see plex as the half way house of self hosting, you run a service that someone else has the control over.

Have you looked at Vivaldi?

It has an insane amount of custimation, out of the box no extensions needed

Also, you could setup users without email. As I don't think it's mandatory

Edit: can confirm email is optional

I have debugged issues that have no reason to be DNS, yet turns out to be the result of a DNS issue

Even when it doesn't look like it

Yes you can, but you might want to understand what your doing.

As DNS can cause all sorts of issues if you get it wrong

if you run home assistant, you can setup music assistant that has snapcast builtin

Music assistant has a snapcast server builtin, so you could replace all your Google devices with snapcast clients

Did you I know music assistant can use snapcast as media device and so can announce and play music?

Sounds like us, ta