I have one PBS in local network and another with smaller disk on a cloud vm in case of big failure

Try wayvnc is super fast, or enable direct connection on RustDesk and connect via ip

• 1 for Frigate with Coral USB ( + scrypted with frigate plugin if you want recordings in apple home )

Sonos is not so bad and in any case they have kept the legacy apps for devices not updated and they still run with homeassistant ( I have a Sonos amp that have at least 18 years 😅 ), I have a soundbar, it sounds very good and is integrated with homeassistant without problems, for example in the evening I have an automation that sets the audio to hear more speech and less sound to disturb less, and compatible with music assistant without hassle, I installed its app only for the first configuration.

Mine is still working as today

Infuse player with jellyfin or direct nfs/samba if in same network

I like the app; it has many useful features. Unfortunately, opening it, the UI, and adding new hosts are slow (as is typical for programs written in Java). This makes it inconvenient when working with many hosts. It could probably be improved by leveraging more background tasks or using a more modern and performant development language.

+1 I bought the pro version but stopped using it because is too slow

Windows is only for games; macOS and Linux are for work. Once they catch up, it will be bye-bye Windows.