This is a generalization that not useful to keep repeating. Better advice would be check to be sure YOUR ISP allows access to the ports you need.

Spotify has significant compression. Search harder me matey.

Nice story bro.

tmux is a very good alternative to screen, if you come across that.

Nextcloud memories has a lot of great features and shares as well as or better than Immich..

I use Immich for the phone backup and then host long term Photo Albums with Memories in Nextcloud. The combo works great.