I think I ran into that exact issue myself when I tried out fedora silverblue. I believe there was a workaround but it was quite involved from what I remember...
I did have a look at their tutorial and found it very technical, difficult to read and was unable to find any information on whether it is possible to send characters/text that are not part of the current keyboard layout. From what you describe I can guess now that kmonad is not really suited to what I am trying to achieve though.
The way I understood the compose key is that it requires me to type a combination in order to get the actual character I want.
What I want is to use the right alt key more like a layer modifier (just like shift works to switch between numbers and signs for example), in order to get my special characters
I haven't used PDFDing before but honestly that description sounds a bit unituitive to me. I would expect to select the color first and then markt the text but maybe this is just because I haven't seen the interface
I always try yt-dlp first with the website URL. If that doesn't work I either try the URL shown in the network tab in the debug menu or try to find a video source URL by inspecting the video html container.
Once I've found a URL using one of those methods I again throw it at yt-dlp
Need a small part? Better buy 10 in case you break one and because it's only marginally more expensive than getting one. Now repeat for every project you do
Not sure if that's what you mean by heavy but I recently watched 1984 and while the movie is good I found it kind of hard to watch. Possibly because a lot of the story and background information was only indirectly said or hinted at and you had to actually pay attention and think about what you saw.
I guess I'm just used to modern cinema where everything is very in your face
On the Clara 2E and newer readers you don't even have to interact with the database anymore. You can plug in the reader using USB and edit a config file to enable Sideload mode which will remove the login screen and default home page and instead deposit you straight into the library menu.
On the topic of SMB. If OP is mostly interested in accessing the music from their phone, a symfonium + SMB server setup may be even easier than setting up navidrome
I think I ran into that exact issue myself when I tried out fedora silverblue. I believe there was a workaround but it was quite involved from what I remember...