Highly highly recommend Backrest!

restic is great but I’m not the best at scripts and JSON and crontab and whatever

Backrest puts the amazing restic right up front with a gui. Add in healthchecks.io webhooks (literally copy and paste setup) and it’s my go-to backup solution hands-down

set up your own domain for email hosting

cannot recommend this enough!

1. register your domain through something like porkbun
2. get an account with someone like mxroute.com (i am a fan, but not an affiliate or anything)
3. enjoy pain-free email for the rest of your life

Thanks- was hoping there was something out there that’s a bit less tied into some large Amazon-y or Google-y type anything

For all their lack of privacy, the Fire Sticks perform pretty well

As someone who is … lazy and took advantage of some Amazon Black Friday Fire TV stick deals, and who doesn’t want to drop the $200 for a Shield:

Any Android sticks/players you might recommend?

I have.

I will.