I wanted to use this on my RPI2 buy I think the CPU is too old 🙃 I to however have a openWRT router and I suppose I can achieve similar functionality with a bit of hacking on the OS.

Welcome to the deep rabbit hole :-) how much do you know about how computers work? In general, you’re going to need to understand some basic networking and general Linux administration, but if you already have a grasp on that then I’d say you just need to start small (simple service, aim to have a resilience goal with backups and restoration) and other metrics that motivates you. Perhaps you want to learn something new with every service you host? You decide, this is your hobby :-)

Hey, don’t forget unciv :-) it may not look amazing but that game is a very fun 4x to play.

This is a very solid (if not the best) roguelike to play on phone.

You’re actually understanding my issues quite well 🙂

The “keep updated” works, but I try to keep it to twice a day to have my battery last longer. So I manually trigger in-between. It’s a natural consequence of the technical choice, really.

As for the “Enqueue downloaded”, I stream everything as I have a massive mobile data plan. Due to this, I can stream a lot but I still have to deal with a separation between inbox/queue.

Thanks for those suggestions, I’m sure they’ll be of help for others that’s not part of my edge case 😁

I was a pocketcast user for years, switched to antennapod a few months ago. Here’s what’s bothering me:

• Antennapod has a weird separation between new episodes (inbox) and what you’re listening to now (queue). PC has that abstracted away where you only have to check one place for your podcasts.
• There is no simple service to sync your subscriptions and listen progress. Gpoddersync is basically abandoned and the protocol lacks features. Hopefully this will change with openpodcastAPI, but they haven’t managed to secure funding yet.
• I’ve been spoilt by having a server doing the heavy lifting of refreshing my podcasts. It’s a minor annoyance that I need to wait approx. 1.5 second per feed to refresh. It’s just the way it is.

There are also things that antennapod does better:

• chapters actually works in AP.
• episode pictures also works in AP, PC only showed the static image of the feed.
• search is just as good as PC.
• its FOSS and hopefully resistant to enshittification (unless all producers go into a closed ecosystem like Spotify tried with their recent purchases of pod-studios).

Best of luck from another pod-nerd.