This is your best option. I did do movie nights with friends during the pandemic in a similar way, but I used OBS Studio to create the stream and Monaserver to stream it to all users. I did not know VLC can handle the streaming to users directly, making this dead simple to setup without additional software. You just need to know how to configure your router to allow the needed port forwarding.

I’d second this. The organization behind it (https://calyxinstitute.org/about) is a long established non profit, their portfolio covers various cool projects. The vpn client itself is basically a rebranded version of https://f-droid.org/packages/se.leap.bitmaskclient, it it is nothing special.

The question is not weather Google is tracking or not, the question is if Google is breaking the law doing so.

Be careful with those, they can interfere/kill your or your neighbors DSL connection. Terrible to diagnose these.

Antennapod supports syncing with podder.net and gpoddersync

Have you tried https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker? It is a docker compose for selfhosting the new Firefox sync server rewritten in Rust.

Credits: https://lemmy.world/post/5839867

That’s so sad. Uses to buy all my music through them.

Keepass on phone, desktop and tablet. Sync serverless via Syncthing.

• completely private
• always available when needed
• no dependency on services which may go away
• all open source software
• maximum security

If you want more in depth control on google services, CalyxOS supports microg in various combos (https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/microg/#options-for-running-microg-in-calyxos). While it has some limitations compared to the official google services, it also allows better privacy control and is fully open source.

On Android nothing comes close to gReader Pro with The Old Reader as sync Backend. Sadly the app is discontinued, however the apk can be used just fine.