Beating google while being local would be the dream, wouldn't it? What you say tracks but i'm like you, i've not done anything remotely like it so it's very possible we're underestimate indeed.
Agreed there isn't any beating google, but everyone operates on different threat models. A bit of inconvenience for a bit of privacy may be worth it for some and not for others. From what little i used of it when i was trying it that yes it had much room for improvement but it was still useable. Once they get predictive text enabled i think the a swipe feature will really shine. But then again that's just my humble opinion
Not OP, i've heard nothing but good things about cloudflare tunnels but for me they have two major drawbacks. The first is you can't use them for a self hosted media server such as jellyfin as it violates their terms of service. The second is you have to trust them with all your traffic. Now i have no reason to think they would do anything nefarious but i'm at the point in my threat model journey that the less i trust in any corporations hands the better. Just my two cents.
The description is similar but i don't remember there being space combat, there may have been but it would have been later in the game. What i'm thinking of was ground based units
I use to do the exact same thing until recently when i found that Audiobookshelf can auto download podcast like podgrab does but in a smarter way. And in my opinion the default naming convention on audiobookshelf is better too. Ditched podgrab and haven't looked back.
You are correct, they are limited to 2.5" drives. They also take m.2 and if i'm not mistaken those go up to 8Tb and 5Tb for 2.5 SSD. Not the ideal single drive solution but if you had a total size goal it looks like you could hit it with an NUC
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn_and_tesonet/