You can use a usb ir receiver, I can recommend FLIRC.

Apollo is Orpheus now

Do you have any sources for this? Curious about the rpi/broadcom part and tv tuner chips specifically.

I can simply share a pdf or picture with my banking app and it reads the QR code and prefills all info. Have you tried this?

Why is this so heavily downvoted? Holy shit people, talk about a hivemind/‘group of dumbasses’…

I’ve recently installed Immich and it’s basically a drop in replacement for Google photos. You do need to host it yourself however.

Look for simplelogin

The screenshots show it’s not just a rating, you can add text to them. Am I misunderstanding you?

Have you tried Piper?

I was using Plexamp for a while but now I’ve mostly converted my library to OPUS so I can fit it all on my phone. I have a script to automatically copy the directory structure/artwork and convert from my main FLAC library, and keep it in sync with my phone using syncthing. I use Musicolet for playback. If your library is bigger or you don’t have much free space then this is of course not an option, but it works for me.