From your post if you just want to permaseed either one from the recs is probably fine.

I’ve used rapidseedbox and ultra.cc in the past, (one months each) and that’s just because my server at home is down in the meantime.

Idk how much automation you need and what can they provide though since I just manually load them when I use it.

My recollection of rapid is nice, they have pre-installed tools like SFTP and your choice of torrent client.

Backward bycicle, SmarterEveryday.

I’ve done this with guitar on my early 20s. I’m righty and one day just decided to locked-in like Destin did to see what would happen. And like him it got to the point where something’s flipped and I could strum open/barre chord comfortably but didn’t get too far with melody though, picking hand is by miles much more awkward, orienting and holding the pick the right way is much more precise control than I thought. I could do decent enough legato to fool non-player.

Then I stopped for a week and it’s just gone, I didn’t become ambidextrous.

Configurability? I mean Truenas Scale is also based on Debian, but it’s an appliance software, if you want NAS it’s purpose made for that. You need to configure Debian yourself if you want functioning NAS.

I still remember when TN doesn’t have native Tailscale apps/docker yet and everytime there’s a Truenas update I need to reinstall and set up Tailscale from scratch.

If you just need a NAS with basic apps/docker, there is no reason to just use Truenas.

I use both, but run a Technitium DNS and Frigate on bare Debian.

Ente

I don’t own an e-reader but if I’m not mistaken, kavita has a KOReader plugin so it probably possible to use it with an e-reader, android reader has many more options I think.

I watch a bunch of weekly anime stuff myself. Never have to worry about transcoding with my devices (locally) and just directplay it. Unless I watch it remotely then it transcodes, I never mess with the default settings and it’s fine.

My cpu is i3 8100 so I think you would be fine as well, unless it’s multiple streams at once I have no reference for that.

https://xkcd.com/2501 to some extent.

Yeah, Linux user can/willing to read instructions that (the important part IMO) unfamiliar to them, that’s like not what average user would do.

Most users know how to install something on Windows, they’ve used it since they were toddler and whether or not you think it’s a better experience in Linux is irrelevant.

Most software they need in Windows has a giant download button on the respective site, double click the downloaded file and you’re done.

99% of the time you can immediately start the program or there will be a shortcut on the desktop.

Also, gaming. Like it or not it is a casual workload, and it’s not as straightforward on Linux.