Considering when I use the radio in the car I might get 2 songs before 5 minus of commercials, no thanks. Audiobooks, podcasts, and PlexAmp all the way

No

Immich is so good. I love it

Off the shelf something like and EdgerouterX is great,

You could consider running Crowdsec as well on yr firewall that way known bots will be blocked

Reminds me of the days of StumbleUpon, good times on the internet back then