but if they were trying to conceal it from you then that might be a bad sign.

Not at all surprising move from a FAANG company. Fucking people over is in their blood.

That doesn't matter because they won't be here by the time that happens

Doesn't help with the bloated web and local webapps, though. Also, you'll need to choose from a set of desktop environments that were made with lower resource usage in mind. Also don't forget that while linux is often faster, a slow drive is still a slow drive and it can help only so much if you keep your OS and heavyweight software on a HDD.

It could be a good idea to move more critical things to a different machine. It's often said that you shouldn't run your router and/or firewall on your main server, but I think there are also security reasons for that.

Or to move those to a low power consumption machine with cheaper hardwRe that are either more resource friendly, or very heavy but it's fine if they can only finish their task over a longer time.

Also, think about how could things go wrong. Have a second DNS and DHCP server (it's difficult to run a secondary DHCP besides the primary, maybe you don't need that), and some way you can reach the internet if the router or the firewall gets borked. That "way" does not need to be accessible at all times, but you should be able to switch it on when needed.
Don't forget to test that these are actually working after you have sweet them up.

Whatever you decide on, don't forget that you don't have to do everything at once. Don't let it overload you. Learning new tech takes time.

That's very weird as with docker on windows you technically run your containers in a linux vm, and besides that, in my experience windows is not nearly stable enough to be useful for running services.
All while I have been deploying selfhosted services for myself without problems on Linux for years. My only problem has been the constantly overloaded system, but that's no surprise when you run heavy services on the 10+ year old portable hard drive system disk. Windows would only perform worse in that environment.

I don't use spotify, and I thought those are volume buttons, and did not understand where are the like and dislike buttons until I read the post. I think this is just a dumb design choice.

It's interesting to me that articles mention godot before unreal. I mean this is not the first time I see it

Being able to change volume and songs without picking up my phone from pocket is also very convenient.

Wired headsets can do that too

Are we really making a tantrum about a default setting? One that is (or rather would be) a sensible choice? Or am I missing the bigger picture?

If the devs wanted to put some intrusive default settings (like a central image-upload checker) then I would understand, but this is a fucking boolean for whether to allow infinite scrolling on the bundled frontend.
This is what server admins are for: to config their servers in a way they see fit for their communities.

And about the content URLs. Later on they agreed on accepting it if someone implemented it well, even if they said they won't work on it for now because there are more important things to get done (and let's be honest, that's true).

This is not the first post where I feel it but I love it so much that we have a lot of people on Lemmy that can talk about things not related to computers!

It's their partner. Maybe OP just wants to get rid of microsoft in their home network and the household, which is not an absurd thing I think.

Honestly I prefer it this way. This means that it's a lot less likely that a bug exposes my USB devices to a random website