Yes, you have to be on a paid plan to use the bridge. I wouldn’t call it “exclusive”, because anyone can sign up for a paid plan. But that isn’t the problem the author mentioned. He said the bridge was finicky, which I haven’t experienced at all.

I’ve been using Thunderbird with the Proton bridge for years with zero issues. I’m not sure what issues the author has had with it.

Are there currently any viable alternatives to Android and iPhone?

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All your liked videos are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LL, and all your liked songs are at https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM .

I would try using yt-dlp. First, download your cookies from YouTube into a file (e.g. youtubecookies.txt). I like the cookies.txt Firefox extension for downloading the cookies.

Then run:

yt-dlp --cookies youtubecookies.txt "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM"

There are a lot of options to yt-dlp, so you’ll want to look into those.

I can confirm that my Ring contact sensors and water leak sensors (both Z-Wave) work well with HomeAssistant using the Nortek QuickStick combo Z-Wave/Zigbee dongle. Sadly I still have my Ring system, but eventually I’ll move away from it.

built back in 2009

The RTX 3060 didn’t come out until 2021 (the year that I bought mine). Is 2009 a typo, or are you saying that your motherboard is really that old?