Unless you already have it, to be honest

You’re already pretty crazy so, maybe Piped or YouTube Local

Stick to local stuff, no need to open ports at all. I got myself a Raspberry Pi and I just have it next to my router.

Once I felt like using it outside my network, instead of opening ports and doing complicated stuff that didn’t work cuz I am behind a Nat, I just used Tailscale instead, it’s a private VPN that is free for a limited amount of devices (like 10 or more I think so it’s fine for you and family). It’s the best easiest thing ever

FreshRSS is what I use and I can create my own feeds using X path, it’s kinda great but too much to explain. I wrote a blog about it.

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/newsboat-queries-and-freshrss-scraping/

yeah but I kinda dislike cloudflare. Tailscale is based on wireguard which is cool

Check out tailscale, the best tool ever to access a server without opening ports or doing hard stuff

The Xiaomi Poco F5 Pro, its bootloader can be unlocked and it’s fairly powerful. I am sure a good rooting and modding community will come out of it.

However, the unlocking process can take a couple weeks which is not great, also MIUI by default sucks.

The Pixel line is always pretty good for custom roms and stuff

That’s fair! I joined apollo.town because it’s small and tidy, not a lot of local communities but following stuff from there ain’t that slow

Hmm. AntennaPod supports syncing with Next loud via a Gpodder’s API, if each kid gets its own next loud account it should work fine

I quite like using K-9 Mail, it merged with Thunderbird and great things are coming for it, I think it’s awesome

Well you can install it locally and get the web interface via localhost, but if it’s a proper server you can access the news from your sources from anywhere and you can also use 3rd party apps in your phone to get a different interface via the API

I recommend trying the apps, especially wefwef.app

FreshRSS, news and websites fetched your way. You can even create feeds for websites that don’t provide one

My most used would be

Tusky

Tachiyomi

Activity watch

AntennaPod

Droidify

Signal

Librera Reader

K-9 Mail

KeepassDX

Bromite

You speak truth

Oh yeah, I got into manga last year and its a whole new world. Its awesome, quick to read and has some really unique stories, you may not have asked for it but here are some recommendations lol

The Boxer: This is a manhwa (korean, colored and also mobile friendly), its about boxing but its so good and so beautiful to read. A must in my opinion.

Kingdom: This is my recommended 700+ chapters series to get into, skip One Piece and Hunter X Hunter, this manga is about the unification of China and while the art is a bit rough the story, war and tactics is absolutely insane, it only gets better.

Eyeshield 21: You don’t care about american football? Me neither, but the art here is done by Murata, a master in this field, and the characters are lovable, a bit old and aged but great.

One Punch Man: You already know what this is about, and its awesome. Murata draws it too and its still going

Solo Leveling: Another Manhwa, this is all about fantasy and an OP main character versus a world of giant creatures and dungeons. Absolutely insane art and crazy story, pretty fun read, I flew through it.

Claymore: You heard of Attack on Titan and stuff, this came before it and its fairly similar but also totally different, the art is also insane but the fights can be a bit hard to follow sometimes. Still, great story, dark fantasy at its best

Sakamoto Days: Jhon Wick but he has a family and he got a bit fat after retiring, very funny but sick action

So anyways there you go, I hope you have a good time if you read any of them

Tachiyomi is absolutely fantastic, so powerful and well made

These are definitely up there for me too but I prefer K9 Mail

AntennaPod, WhatsApp, Solid Explorer