I have spent a lot of time playing GB/GBA games and Advance Wars is among my favorites. I love the “hot potato” mode for playing with a friend with just one device.

Python / FastAPI will be better than Java in your situation and is easy to learn. Go should be even better and is also relatively easy to learn!

I own two Raspberries 1, a Raspberry 4 8GB and a Raspberry 5 8GB. I wouldn’t recommend the 4 as a full-fledged desktop replacement, but the 5 has been very smooth so far.

I’m currently using the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite and installed KDE on top.

I was lucky then with the 4 A400 I’m still using. I also have 3 BX500 that have been very reliable.

Kingston A400s and Crucial BXs have been very good as cheap SSDs in my experience.

Easiest solution, use the Jellyfin client on your phone and use that to stream to your Chromecast.

If you want to use just your PC, then you need to be able to access your Jellyfin over HTTPS. Search a bit and you’ll find tutorials for this, but you’ll have some work ahead of you. Doing all this through your smartphone is much easier.

I’m having a similar experience. Almost all developers (mostly Python/Django) I was following on Twitter are on Mastodon and being able to follow hashtags is great. The servers are stable and I kept the very first android client I tried (Tusky).