If you are willing to pay kagi is great.

I love Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, didn’t realize it supported podcasts as well. I will have to look into that, thanks!

Yeah, I have a very hard time trusting Microsoft.

Yeah, the DBD community is pretty bad.

I switched because Microsoft just keeps getting worse and worse, and I like having complete control over my system. And limiting the amount of my data going out.

Linux in general uses much less system resources than windows, and I like being able to easily change my workflow (desktop environment, window manager, etc).

That is a bummer, they were one of my go-to sites. Very sad to hear.