Charmander was the flammable one!
M-Discs exist. Blu-rays, Vinyls and CDs are usually sufficient for a life. This is why physical media is important.
Steam Machines?
I would like to add: people incredibly underestimate the convenience of having data on Blu-ray rather than on HDD/SSD: Blu-rays last longer and, if purchased cheaply (as in the case of the cheap PS3 game market), have a comparable or superior cost-benefit ratio.
In this case we can say that the console, given its low price on the second-hand market (and if with a working blu-ray player), is incredibly convenient even without the pirate aspect.
Void Linux, very clean and fast on old hardware.
Proton is Wine with prefixes, basically, you can use it without Steam on Lutris for example (Wine-GE suggested); also, emulation for old games isn't so demanding, try different cores for RetroArch.
Logseq or Orgzly Revived
Nothing versus newpipe but PeerTube doesn't need to support proprietary platforms, also a dedicated app would probably be better to implement particular peertube's features.
At that level of wealth, concepts such as meritocracy (if ever it's a positive term) are meaningless; let us still tell the fairy tale that capitalism rewards the best of us and not the recommended.
KISS is all I need.
It is very good but needs a couple of big instances to attract people and make videos research more reliable in the fediverse.