I used haruna and it works. The instructions on the FreeTube GitHub could be clearer though. Depending on if you’re using FreeTube and or the external player as flatpak there are different ways to get it working.

I do the same with moths as they are more active at night

Check out the workaround with an external player. It worked for me during the time friend didn’t work the past few days.

One of them isn’t

From briefly looking over the toot, I think the German version is called openDesk (bad choice as there seems to be some interior design software with the same name) there is a community version you can self host in a docker container. They apparently also have distro packages for Debian and Ubuntu but they seem to have stopped development on those.

Here’s a link: https://opendesk.eu/en/

I don’t have a definitive answer but I’d figure the low res might still be “easier” there is, for example a style called impressionism where they basically painted “pixels”.