Gravitywell

Musicbrainz picard has an option to tag files based on acustic fingerprinting

My piped instance is still working https://piped.gravitywell.xyz

You can use any DE you want on just about any distro you want

How do you mean they are spamming?

Mint is a good alterative. It has an xfce edition.

Using a live usb is the correct answer since compiling a custom initramfs would require one anyway and just add more steps… Not sure what gives you the impression using a liveusb is “more complicated” but its not.

Can you upgrade the desktop? What speed is your laptops WiFi?

I just use rsync manually until I have syncthig working but these don’t really solve slowdown issues and aren’t mounted. I would look into a better NIC and/or storage for the desktop or possibly your router.

Try using something like iperf to measure raw speed of the connection between your 2 systems, see if its what it should be (around 300-600mbps for wireless to wired locally) and try to narrow down where the bottleneck is.

Depends on your use case but I found a plugin to use openai for dictation in obsidian

Glad you found what you need. Ive never needed any browser plugins to use JDL2, it just works with copy and past and monitors your clipboard,

Jdownloader2 is the the best, I’ve not used anything else for years.

Use https://dockstarter.com

Follow https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Dockstarter/

I would also suggest prowlarr instead of jackett.

If that’s too hard then I think you should consider renting a seedbox that has easy one click install options for all the ARRs.