I have a reminder pop every few months to download the newest games that I bought from GoG. I've found it easier to download one or two, rather than a giant batch.
I always find it very telling when people get mad at those who decided that they couldn’t stomach voting for genocide, instead of getting mad at the party that ran on a pro-genocide platform.
I use https://tt-rss.org/
The devs are kinda jerks, but the app works decently if you can self-host. Theres also a couple of phone-apps that work fairly well.
I used my SteamDeck as a media center for a while, and it worked pretty well. I never had any battery issues.
It did have a little bit of trouble on super high-quality videos, but it worked well enough for the rest
I have a big storage server and a couple of backup drives for all my media