Swiftfin isn’t perfect, but Is pretty good on AppleTV.

Quad9, DNS.Watch, OpenDNS

Three good alternatives.

Why not take the dogs with you, if that is „all“?

Yes, holidays can, by law, be reset on Jan 1st.

However, the company needs to have reminded you that it will, and also allow you to actually take the time off.

If you have 30 days on December 1st, then they need to allow you to either take the days forward into the year or take it in December.

They are the ones mostly developing all the foss bridges (for Signal,Telegram etc).

Not really mad that they are keeping some of their product closed.

Still giving us selfhosting folks the tools we need.