The communities on different instances are not the same. You can subscribe to both. The idea behind federation is that one company/server can't control all the traffic. It might result in a little splintering of communities, but I think it's ultimately better to be decentralized.

All the cards in this stack below the 4080 need to be shifted down a tier. The pricing on this entire generation is insane.

It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:

• Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
• Actual (budgeting)
• Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
• Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
• Jellyfin (media)
• Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
• *arr stack (media fetching)
• Immich (photos)
• Pihole (DNS adblocking)
• Vaultwarden (password manager)

It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.

You can download Thunder from IzzyOnDroid (you can add this as a repository to F-Droid).

It's easy enough to install LineageOS on OnePlus phones. Would rather do that than deal with shady stuff like this.

Fiio E10k dac/amp combo with Hifiman HE400se.

The Belkin RT3200 is a pretty popular router for openwrt. It's a Wifi 6 router and you can usually find them cheap on ebay.

It requires unlocking the bootloader. No issues with my banking apps but I don't use Google pay. I think to use Google pay you'd need to install Magisk for root and install a module so that you can bypass safetynet.

Most Odroid boards have arm processors, but the H3+ has an Intel N6005.

That is one that I haven't done yet, but I've found this guide to be a good outline.

It's mostly for if you already have DDR4 and an AM4 motherboard. If you're on something like a 2700x this is a massive upgrade. If you're building new then AM5 or the latest Intel is a better idea.

Excited for the full release of the game. Still don't have beta access to try it.

I've thought about it but I don't really game on the go. I do want to get a mini PC and do in-home streaming to my TV though.