Anything that can be emulated on a PSP is retro to me, because that's where I emulate most things
chrono
Unless you already have it, to be honest
You're already pretty crazy so, maybe Piped or YouTube Local
Stick to local stuff, no need to open ports at all. I got myself a Raspberry Pi and I just have it next to my router.
Once I felt like using it outside my network, instead of opening ports and doing complicated stuff that didn't work cuz I am behind a Nat, I just used Tailscale instead, it's a private VPN that is free for a limited amount of devices (like 10 or more I think so it's fine for you and family). It's the best easiest thing ever
FreshRSS is what I use and I can create my own feeds using X path, it's kinda great but too much to explain. I wrote a blog about it.
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/newsboat-queries-and-freshrss-scraping/
yeah but I kinda dislike cloudflare. Tailscale is based on wireguard which is cool
Check out tailscale, the best tool ever to access a server without opening ports or doing hard stuff
The Xiaomi Poco F5 Pro, its bootloader can be unlocked and it's fairly powerful. I am sure a good rooting and modding community will come out of it.
However, the unlocking process can take a couple weeks which is not great, also MIUI by default sucks.
The Pixel line is always pretty good for custom roms and stuff
That's fair! I joined apollo.town because it's small and tidy, not a lot of local communities but following stuff from there ain't that slow
Hmm. AntennaPod supports syncing with Next loud via a Gpodder's API, if each kid gets its own next loud account it should work fine
I quite like using K-9 Mail, it merged with Thunderbird and great things are coming for it, I think it's awesome
I made a blog about this. Make sure to follow it via RSS too ;)
https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/newsboat-queries-and-freshrss-scraping/