Same as you, I also haven’t fully dipped my toes to the world of self-hosting (yet).

1. For non-animation movies/series, I wade through the popular/trending categories or read recommendation from friends, lemmy or, god forbid, reddit. I don’t really need to do this lately as my shows backlog is as long as my games backlog.
2. For convenience always. 720p is fine for me.
3. I stream. Unless it is one of my favorites I want to keep.
4. Real-debrid+Stremio.
5. Stremio does it for me. Also for anime, I have Anilist.

If this is about your post in !woodworking@lemmy.ca, I can see it just fine by checking the post history from your profile. I’m using Voyager.

Applicable to everyone really, especially those that want to sell you something that sounds too good to be true.

https://youtu.be/eN6jkWxxm2Y