Furniture was a “luxury” item. We had very a few and ugly options, produced by socialist / plan economy manufacturing industry. Quality wise these were meh… Even then one needed to jump through the hoops to buy the ugly and not very affordable furniture. Rumours about new batch coming to a local store and you have a long queue waiting for hours, sometimes days. Anything better imported from abroad, was super difficult to get hold of. Unless you’re a member of the socialist gov and have connections.

As a person who grew up in a socialist country, I say be careful what you wish for.

Sorry, I couldn’t manage to read the whole post. Anyway, you may want to try authentik 2024.6 or later. They “reworked proxy provider redirect” in that version. I find it much more stable, but still not perfect. OAuth works great though. Note that 2024.6 requires Postgre db upgrade.