There are a lot of backend processes for those sites which need a server, so that wouldn't work, but thank you regardless.
asap
If you're doing static sites, then traffic shouldn't be a concern.
I host two sites that each get more than 2 million hits a month, and I run them from a $0.10 cent Scaleway server.
Cloudflare in front of the sites takes most of the load.
How can you be sure that the "random" products aren't something that you've seen ads on (but not remembered seeing), which stuck in your subconscious, and then you regurgitated as the random item? Then later when you saw more of the same ads, you noticed them and they seemed like new, targeted ads.
You would need to use a random topic generator, not just come up with them via brain.
I believe the question was: "Pathetic in what way?"
Please enlighten us.
smartphone app
It's a PWA, just install the site on your phone as a native app. I've been using it for about a year.
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
Not according to that thread - it looks like they don't yet know what caused it:
https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761
No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.
"Rare"
It's just Fedora CoreOS with some small quality-of-life packages added to the build.
There's tons of documentation for CoreOS and it's been around for more than a decade.
If you're running a container workload, it can't be beat in my opinion. All the security and configuration issues are handled for you, which is especially ideal for a home user who is generally not a security expert.
It's just Fedora CoreOS with some QoL packages added at build time. Not niche at all. The very minor changes made are all transparent on GitHub.
Choose CoreOS if you prefer, it's equally zero maintenance.
The thing Synology does which no competitor is yet doing is rock-solid stability.
I have a 10 year old Synology running as well as it did the day I bought it, and I've never needed to troubleshoot a single issue on it.
Until a competitor can match that I will still be buying Synology, with the increased drive price the cost I pay for that stability.
I think people underestimate the value of that.