It was forked but somehow lacked a huge amount of functionality that Emby had (and still has) Like I think it only supported films, not music or TV shows. The app infrastructure was awful across fire stick, Roku and android and wasn't backward compatible with the Emby apps. I just didn't see the point of forking it if you're just going to make it worse or only address the server side and neglect the clients. The whole thing has to work together with good clients and server.
I can't use VPN on my work PC so I have some services open on sub domains that aren't in my DNS. Follow some basic rules and it's fine.
My phone is always connected to my Wireguard running on Opnsense. It's simple, fully self hosted and works great.
I do play and I absolutely guarantee any guitar I would try assemble would play so so badly. Setting up a guitar is an exercise in precision engineering with wood.
20 years ago there were 2000000000 fewer people in the world.