Always has been.
Always has been.
You should look at either jellyfin or plex. Jellyfin doesn’t quite have the skip intro feature but it’s being worked on, and I think plex has the option to skip intros. Both will autoplay a series though.
I assume this is just your launcher flagging that the app is newly installed.
How does streameast compare with sports surge?
You should give the Douglas Adams narrated ones a try.
The last time I used it, Voice worked pretty well.
This is why I don’t see the benefit of private trackers
Volume control seems to work fine for me.
Zlib still works as well
Any stable linux distro should be fine, as you have experience with Ubuntu I would go with that. There should be plenty of support out there if you run into any issues too.
If you don’t want firefox, Cromite is pretty good. Also if you need your vpn for other things, then the next best thing is a custom dns, I use nextdns which is customisable and blocks a fair amount of stuff.
RB mods
I use either telegram or Bandcamp to get stuff, then beets.io to manage my library, Jellyfin is then pointed to that folder and I mainly use Symfonium to play my music on mobile.