I feel that same, I stopped using mint for that reason but I haven’t found a self hosted replacement yet.

Check out: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

Such a thing exists? I haven’t been able to find something that will connect to my accounts and pull data automatically.

I think the ISO specifically wasn’t reproducible but now it is.

Nix packages are probably what you’re thinking of. They are reproducible

If anyone is confused, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

Check out sonarr and radarr

They allow you to automate downloading stuff.