Never were, seemingly never was.

The metadata server is currently being nursed back to a working state

Picard and Lidarr

Sadly no actual search function that pipes it into yt-dlp.
Imagine the releases were done as yearly seasons and their individual videos.

Confidently incorrect.

Loving it.
Don’t get discouraged by it being in “Beta”.
Yes it get’s many releases in a short time frame. But nothing you can’t manage without reading patch notes.

No worries. But be sure to research what you setup for it being sane or secure.

As for myself: I had significant help from a fellow dude on discord answering many of my stupid questions.
Everyone had to begin at one point ;)

I use Veeam.
The Agent is free amd can do integrity checks
The B&R server can manage multiple systems has a steeper learning curve can be free (with a reduced featureset) or operated with a license.

I use Veeam at home and at work and I quite love it.
(And they recently started supporting Proxmox)

Not sure.
As cooking is like art anyway, I usually wing the amounts beyond the 2nd try.
Only on the 1st try I’ll actually hardcore follow the recipe. For unusual large amounts I’ll manually calculate.

I am documenting my recipes in obsidian (which essentially is nothing else than mkdocs :p)

Do we really need a federated streaming platform??

Musicbrainz is also not federated, neither is wikipedia.

That not everyone is on bandcamp

Works fine (Finamp)

What?
Just have your files properly tagged by picard/lidarr.
Improper tags = Weird behaviour you caused.

Using Finamp and Symfonium on my phone.

Didnt touch Jellyfin for ~2 years (except tweaking hardware acceleration) besides updating it.
Worked fine for me.
At worst you will get security problems from unpatched bugs or loose compatibility from external services, e.g. the musicbrainz API connection in lidarr.

Essentially what I did to some degree.

Understandbly theres no real need to use powershell outside of the windows realm.

As far as my limited experience understood it: Everything powershell gives you is in a properly formatted data type (e.g. bool, text, int, etc.) and thus can be more easily manipulated than in bash where everything is treated as text.

Your friend is wise.
He uses the a specific tool for a specific task.

The few times I tried bash it was awful.
At least Powershell let’s me manipulate data more freely and organized.

But Linux has way cooler packages (Window Server 2025 finally implemented winget ootb).

I’m using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.

And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 0.5% load from the active user session