Nice. I think we simultaneously wrote very similar comments. But I don’t use my Jellifin to mimick live TV. Either I choose some movie or the next episode of my new favorite TV show, or I just waste my time on YouTube. I also used to watch Netflix, but I think they removed most of the interesting content.
I’ve been using YunoHost for some time. Cosmos seems good, too. Both do most of the stuff for you and should come with documentation. I think that’s the way to go if you can’t set it all up yourself, or lack time to maintain it.
I’ve also used Docker containers and plain Debian. I use NGinx as a reverse proxy.
I document things in text files (markdown). At some point it’d like to upload them with something like mkdocs or to a wiki. But since it’s just me, having them just sitting in a directory on my laptop is fine.
Use something that’s super accessible so you’ll actually use it. I often just dump random thoughts or commands I executed into the textfiles and I have my text editor open all the time anyways. And then on the server I eiter use Ctrl+R and search through the shell history, or search in my documents. Doesn’t need to be fancy,
grep -rni "keyword"
does it for me.