Don’t even need home server, regular PC with a disk will do. Just fireup syncthing on both devices and voila. Can set syncthing to start on pc

Yes, doubling characters or numbers is common in Chinese to insist on the item.

At weddings, you will see lots of double happiness characters for example.

“Everybody” is literally the character for people that is repeated, so “yan yan”.

I have debian stable with xfce on a 2014 laptop. Increasing the fonts size and using KDE connect for remote on the phone to control the whole thing. Works smoothly for video and internet, just what I need.

It’s tedious when you need to run terminal commands so I have an SSH server running there too.

For gaming maybe you want to consider moonlight utility, to stream steam games from your gaming PC to your TV PC. It’s decent for most games but forget competitive shooters.

I like to use https://searx.neocities.org/ It randomises your search across several searx instances. It’s not always reliable as some instances are sometimes down or exceed request limit. But retrying often works. Worst case i use mojeek or ddg

A bit off topic here, but can I ask which digital store you’d recommend for buying music pls ? I know some of them only give back like 3% of the price to the artist. I wouldnt mind paying extra if it serves the artist. I’m interested in metal music of all kinds, if that’s relevant.