This was actually very helpful perspective thank you

But other comments are saying the exact opposite, that Google has full and compete access to the device and its hardware at all times.

So just to confirm the answer to my question question: Its pointless to use encrypted messaging on an Android device?

Someone at Google could hear what a device’s microphone is picking up at all times?

Odd. Signal notifications absolutely include the content of the messages received.

Neither, some manufacturers modify Android considerably. By “stock” I mean essentially what is on Pixels and many other devices, but not for example, Samsung.

What app are you using? I like cdisplayex for comics. Kavita is basically just a file host and progress syncer

I really like CasaOS and if you’re just getting started then it’s really friendly. But if I were to start fresh today I would probably go YunoHost because it seems to have the biggest community around it.

Haven’t heard of Cosmos but it looks interesting and seems to have some features like reverse proxy baked in that would otherwise need a container like nginx proxy manager. It doesn’t seem to have very many pre-approved apps however.

The simplest way is to get the gluetun app (on the BigBearCasaOS app store), get it set up with your VPN, then in qbittorrent do this (with the port):

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You can do the same thing on Prowlarr in the “proxy” settings. Radarr and Sonarr have a similar Proxy setting but you don’t really need to put those behind the VPN there.

Thanks it looks like Readdeck has Koreader integration too. Will look into Logseq.

The RSS feeds aspect of Readdeck is a really nice feature! Looks like they both can send from the browser directly (for paywalls).

I wonder if anyone could make a version of this with Bypass paywalls clean baked in for convenience.