A couple of months ago I installed Yunohost on an old laptop for the same use case as OP and I find it is very easy to use. The hardest part to setup was mostly the dynamic DNS stuff, because I only have a basic understanding of how the internet works. Once I got (sub)domains and dynamic IP setup it has been smooth sailing.
Yunohost even had a patch for the global panic inducing PHP2Shell the same day as the announcement.
This is a cool idea! I contribute little by little when I can but this app looks like it makes it more convenient to do so.
If you want to try some niche music service there is resonate.coop which encourages exploration by making it cheap to listen to a song once. However, if you like the song and keep going back to it it will be considered “purchased” and you will no longer be charged when you listen to it. Last I checked there was no offline mode for purchased songs but they were working on it.
You don’t need a high level of education to know you shouldn’t inject bleach into your system to kill COVID-19, and yet people died listening to Trump’s suggestion.
The company that made the Nexdock is planning to make a phone. It will be Android but it can bring up a full Linux desktop that can access the Android storage. I am considering getting it and only using Android for calls, texts, and a couple apps while I install phosh UI in the distro and focus on using that.
https://nexphone.com/