Honestly the LCD decks are so cheap, especially with sales, I don’t think you could build a gaming PC for that price.

Same here but YT Music instead of Spotify since Spotify ruined their app. It’s a nice package and I like their recommendation engine better.

External communities are just searchable, subscribable and browsable from here. Sometimes you need to change a search filter or default view from Local to All. Or is there something else you feel is missing? I think 90% of the issues people are having are UX related and not a core issue with federation or decentralization.