I use systemd-nuclear-reactor in my system, systemd-spoon and systemd-fork weren’t good enough to replace just using my hands though.

I wish they’d remove the US-only geo-restriction they have on half the autofill functionality.

There’s a GNOME extension called HUE lights that allows you to control everything from your tray, entertainment zones and all. Similar probably exists for KDE/etc.

Nobody is forcing you to use Wayland. Just take up the mantle of maintaining X11 yourself, because nobody is forced to keep that alive either.

I had Mealie working in docker compose (and web-exposed) but I just checked, and my build is considered very outdated now. A lot of the mealie documentation is a bit out of date, skimming through it, but this configuration page has a recent example docker compose that should get you running using sglite internally, and there’s another example one here if you want to use postgres as your database.

If your keeping the container LAN Only, I guess you’d just use http://localhost:9000 as the BASE_URL instead of a domain, it only seems to be used for browser notifications.

I would’ve suggested MusicBrainz as a metadata library to pull genre tags from, but I’m pretty sure beets uses that as it’s source too. I tried beets on my collection, but ended up just using MusicBrainz Picard and tagging things manually because beets would basically pick the first match it found a lot of the time, and there was usually a more correct option in the database.

As far as bulk downloading diverse music catalogs, I don’t really know of any good sources, but there probably are music-focused trackers out there that could provide that. I’ve just slowly build my collection up album by album as I found things that interested me. Maybe check the likes of last.fm and ListenBrainz for most played music in their stats, and start collecting those?

How do you intend to access your music collection? Navidrome? or are you just building up folders of music?