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Navidrome with Substreamer on mobile for auto-generated recommendations based on already played music works great for me.

Calibre Web has Kobo integration, although I’ll admit I haven’t been able to make it work so far: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integration

Jitsi also provides integration with Matrix chat.

Applying negative selection, QNAP has a terrible security track record and WD has terrible performance and security track record. So if you want something that’s mostly plug and play, Synology it is, consider a “+” model if there’s any chance that you may expand beyond the simple file sharing use case.

Disclaimer: I currently own three Synology boxes (718+, 220+, 216j) and a QNAP TS-453D running Proxmox (for fun and as an attempt to move towards a HW vendor-independent solution).

Keeping storage and compute separately is the best practice but if you’re OK with combining both in one device then running docker-compose on a Synology (via SSH, + versions only) works just fine. An alternative that reduces the lock-in at the expense of more tinkering is buying an amd64 QNAP and installing Openmediavault / TrueNAS / plain Debian.