You don’t even need much cash. An old N40L and four 250gb ssds will get you 750gb running Truenas and raid.

I hear but have not verified that they will connect to an open network without letting you know.

Don’t forget you save lots of fuel by firing out of the solar system instead

OK I had no idea this existed so thanks! I’m one of today’s lucky 10000 I guess. I have an old Panasonic with Viera and had no idea it did this. Not working perfectly yet but not far off.

OK I’ll take a look at it, interesting.

What TV do you have? What are you running Kodi on?

What TV remote?

Wine is pretty good for most things I’ve tried, except new Office (will run the old versions OK). Try O365, if Libre Office won’t cut it. You can try the installer in Wine without hurting anything. For your other stuff,I keep a Windows 8 vm around off network to run some ancient radio programming software, so maybe that is an option.

And it is not scary. A simple distro like Mint, figure out where the software repositories live, how to use thr off8xe suite, and you’re done. Life is "great*.

Pretty much this. Imagine some untutored user given the jellyfin client. They can figure it out pretty quickly as it is much like Netflix. Compare that to a Kofi on a Pi, first you have a keyboard/mouse. OK, then arrow keys and spacebar get you a ways in - now how do I stop the video? Panic till you find out it’s the X key.

It is the simplicity vs functionality debate. Kodi is amazingly configurable but it is not accessible for your normal household user without a ton of work. Jellyfin(as an example) just runs on the Roku they are already using.

Eventually I’m getting off my old Roku 3 permanently for Kodi, so I’m just saying I wish Kodi had a dummy mode.

The learning curve for Kodi is pretty steep. Most folks aren’t going to bother.

How did Customs let it through? It has to have DOT spec stuff in the US. I don’t know about more than 25 years old.

Where are you finding things like this? What’s parts availability like?

Oh yeah I plan to update. But only when I really get annoyed.

Er I’m still running a FX-8350 as a gaming machine (not AAA games obviously). I had another one as a host for a few VMs and it was more than enough till the motherboard went. One day I’ll upgrade I guess.

Stockpile did this too. I quit them (i did not like them anyway but that was the last straw)

It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.

Plex is pretty commercialized these days and I don’t doubt they’re likely selling your data.

You should keep posting on Usenet too…rec.+

Hey she’s pretty good