or a better alternative out there with a database of tabs as large as the two have
https://www.justinguitar.com/store/tabs
I don’t know if it’s good enough for your needs, but they have a 7-days trial, so you can check it out for free.
Or use their API, you can filter by timestamp here https://miniflux.app/docs/api.html#endpoint-get-entries or get counters here https://miniflux.app/docs/api.html#endpoint-counters
This course might be an overkill for a home server, but here’s my recommendation: https://www.udemy.com/course/docker-kubernetes-the-practical-guide/?couponCode=ST15MT31224 - it covers stuff from basic manually typed commands to kubernetes and aws.
it seems a billion dollar company can’t compete with these folks who make their apps so much more serviceable
They are not competing, they are actively trying to kill these apps. Besides, those apps are nothing without this billion dollar company and its infrastructure. Their apps are not great, but you’re still on YouTube.
Crazy prices for movies and software like Photoshop. I’m still subscribed to YT Music, but I have to pirate music as silly wars between labels and artists result in music being removed from streaming services from time to time. For the same reason I don’t want to buy movies online - we don’t own shit.