Curse you! Ordered…

SponsorBlock is a must for this. Its basically a crowdsourced addon for skipping stuff that you mentioned.

For most popular videos it is seamless, for other obscure ones you can save someone the agony of watching it!

• Pi hole
• Syncthing(was able to replace Dropbox for my keepass database when they decide to limit number of devices for free tier) - perfect for regularly updated files and backups for photos, etc.
• Audiobookshelf - great way to manage audiobooks, also has a nice android app plus can turn each audiobook/series/collection of books into RSS and put in your favorite podcast app
• Plex/Jellyfin for media collections