I heard rumors that sony does contribute back to FreeBSD, but privately.

https://safereddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ut1dd6/how_much_did_sony_contribute_to_the_freebsd/

RSS for in $current_year such as subscribing to a youtube channel without being logged in/directly using the frontend.

I use RSS to subscribe to my favorite channels on invidious. https://invidious.io/

But I needed a Linux VM and somehow I couldn’t get the hypervisor to work with anything but BSD

Do you know about the linux-compat layer on FreeBSD? https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/