If you're down to use Piped as a YT front-end, there's an RSS icon on every channel page in the top right corner.
If you want to use YouTube directly, use the following link and append the channel ID of whatever channel you want to follow: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
Another alternative would be using something like FreeTube, which can use RSS to fetch subscriptions (but doesn't by default unless you're subbed to a high number of channels).
The easiest way is to use RSS for podcasts is to use a dedicated app. AntennaPod is what I use (Android) and I can't recommend it enough, it has a search feature to find the RSS feeds for whatever podcast you like and add them to your subscriptions.
I started using RSS during the summer. It filled a hole after I quit reddit, since I used to get a lot of my news from the subreddits for my city and my province. There's also the on-going bickering between Meta and Canadian lawmakers/news media groups which means I see way less articles on social media than I used to. Honestly, after adding a couple local news outlets to my RSS apps, I feel better informed than ever before, and I spend a lot less time arguing with people on reddit. Win-win if you ask me.
Anyone looking for good RSS readers, I use Feeder on my phone (Android-only), Fluent Reader on desktop (cross-platform), and I also use the RSS widget of the Renewed Tab addon for Firefox. Both apps I use work locally, and have the ability to fetch full articles in-app (the addon just opens the articles in Firefox).
Something also worth mentioning: you can often find RSS feeds by checking the page's source (on Firefox: right-click and "View Page Source") and using Ctrl+F to search, there's usually a URL somewhere. Keywords to search for: "feed", "RSS", "xml", "atom". For example, if I go to this community's page on lemmy.world, I can Ctrl+F "feed" on the page source to find https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml
I meant your comment that I replied to. Suggesting emulating an Android app as the easiest way to watch YouTube on desktop is plain old silly.
I'll chose to interpret this comment as a joke, but if anyone wants a desktop app for YouTube, check out FreeTube. No ads, subscriptions without a Google account, Sponsorblock integration, videos can be proxied through Invidious if wanted.
I'm far from an audiophile, but stuff fetched from Spotify downloads at 320 kbps. I usually fetch from Deezer, which has 44.1 kHz FLAC.
If you don't wanna faff about on a PC to obtain movies/TV shows, Stremio (+Torrentio addon and a Real-Debrid subcription) is probably the smoothest piracy experience you could get on a tablet.
If you're fine with doing it manually, you could just install Libretorrent to download stuff and VLC to play the files.
I'll implant a bullet in my head before any tech directly touches my neurons.
There's zspotify which is the only one I know of, but on the rare occasion I want to download an album I just use doubledouble.top
It runs Android TV, so you just need to get the APK onto your TV. You can download a file manager from the Play store (I use X-Plore) and use that to install the APK from via USB. Alternatively, you could download a web browser from the Play store (I use TV Bro) and download the APK directly on the TV.
Business relationships may be mutually beneficial to those who willingly enter them, but unlike symbiotic relationships, they're usually detrimental to the ecosystem as a whole.
Feeder is a FOSS local RSS client for Android, there's no options to create an account, so I don't know what you're on about.
If you're looking for a good desktop RSS client, I use Fluent Reader which is also local, FOSS, and doesn't need any accounts. It does use Electron, which I know ticks some people off but IMO an RSS client is a pretty acceptable use-case for it.