Project Gorgon!
Pause/play/skip for music from the other room is nice, auto mute, phone notifications on desktop, etc... Even with my phone next to me, some features are still useful.
archinstall is so easy I'm convinced almost anybody can do it.
Cebu Blue Pothos
And yup! Water feeds into a terracotta piece, which keeps my plant watered.
For 24$/year porkbun has been really easy!
I think it looks fine on android, but it probably doesn't integrate with iOS nicely. I also think light themes are bad by default so I can't judge your photo accurately lol.
Sounds like Time Commando.
You're more than welcome to register an account on canchat.org (my server).
And yes, as long as you enable OMEMO encryption, your server provider cannot read your encrypted messages.
https://providers.xmpp.net/ is a good resource for finding a provider (homeserver) as well.
I use both Matrix and XMPP regularly. Matrix is what I recommend, unless you want something that will run on low-end hardware, then XMPP is better. They're both good, and very similar.
If you bind medpacks to your "quick" menu, it gives you the count there.