No, which I mentioned in my comment.

I imagine you’re exaggerating but if not then I’d say that’s a tad extreme. That being said, their official setup guide does provide steps on how to install it but I think if I didn’t have prior experience with some of the software it mentions I think I’d struggle so maybe a different guide by someone else is better?

However these obviously require having something that this can be run on, like a VPS, which aren’t free, so that is another barrier for entry to consider.

I don’t understand this argument because NewPipe still gets the video from YouTube (primarily), costing them to host…

I see, and you can just download them? If so that’s good. I’ve seen issues where people are struggling to play their purchased music on the Amazon Music app, but if you can download them then that doesn’t matter…

Amazon’s Music app is the worst thing ever conceived. Don’t.

yes all the comment here were extremely helpful

A note for people wanting to use ACCA (GUI frontend for ACC), ACCA isn’t being maintained (the ACC guys will tell you not to use it, but still can). Make sure to install ACC manually first to get the latest version, as the app downloads a version from 2021 if you don’t and this can cause issues.
After that, the app works fine for basic use.

What do you use to attempt to improve your battery life? Curious.

Not a relay Mac, see the post you linked.

Note: Beeper Cloud’s new Oct 2023 iMessage bridge never used Mac relay servers and still does not today. It uses a similar method to Beeper Mini, but runs on a cloud server.