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You’re overthinking. Just host it on any server with a domain name and use let’s encrypt certs if you want to access it from anywhere. TLS offers good encryption, I don’t get how you need a VPN on top of that.

For local access only, I’d just host it on a machine over the lan, self-signed certs for TLS, hell I would even settle with http in this case. As for your VPN app preventing you to access a local resource on your lan, if true, you should get rid of that nonsense.

You can pay for ad-free. It’s an affordable one time purchase and it supports the dev’s work.

My friends and I use syncplay + mpv for this. It works well, and even though it’s designed around local file playback, you can add https URLs to the playlist. So this with nginx serving the files has been a great solution.

You can even play YouTube videos by adding yt-dlp to mpv, but that doesn’t reliably work right now as far as I can tell.

That is absolute cancer.

It still doesn’t have a webapp that was supposed to ship weeks ago. The android app is buggy, laggy and doesn’t allow direct capture from the camera. I’d say loops is not ready yet.

not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me

I was so surprised by this as well. I thought I just couldn’t find the login at first. Well at least the feature is planned for next year.

I realize this in not answering your question, but I thought you might like to know that some people share access to their antenna on the web at http://websdr.org/. This sdr webapp lets you listen to the airbands from their antennas basically, and each user can tune it to their own frequency at the same time.

Mumble is so underrated. It does one job and but does it very well.

Importing that data into a RDBMS would be ideal. I’d use PostgreSQL for this but any other would work.

you have to tap a link to go to the actual, often cookie-walled, website

Kind of like how RSS/Atom is not useful anymore. Most feeds don’t contain the actual articles, in an attempt to increase clicks and ad revenue. That’s just sad, I miss the old internet.