I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

It might be catching and data mirrioring. When you run something as large as google there are hundreds of servers that need to be synced. Deleting large chunks of data can take an extremely long time to propagate.

Same. It also doesn’t feel like I’m shouting into a void on here. It feels more like a community and less like a contest to get up votes.

Pretty much anything people have been running on raspberry PIs should work. Pinhole for ad blocking,home assistant for smart home, plex/media host, or a NAS.