You still have realvnc lite. It is free, 1 user, 3 machines, less features, but the basics still there.

Well you could run these services in your server (only if you have enough spare bandwidth, ram and cpu) to help the comunity to circumvent censorship in some countries, like Russia or Iran. Here you have more information for tor and i2pd.

Tor relay (guard/middle or bridge/snowflake) and i2p node (i2p, i2p+ or i2pd)

Tor bridge/relay and i2p node

Snowflake and i2pd could work but not in the best conditions.

A tor guard/middle relay or bridge/snowflake and i2pd node.

I would say debian but as others said, are you on hopping distros? Do you have any problem with fedora 39?

If you look on this plex support page, they say you need around 8000 passmark points, if I were you, I will look a cpu which a bare minimum of 10000 passmark points to be fine.

Debian 12 with your favorite DE, I use XFCE

Just look for a NUC with an Intel N100 with passive cooling.

Not for China. For example nytimes.

Debian 12 with xfce

In my servers I use debian 12, but I think a good balance (stability & up to date packages) would be linux mint in my opinion.

I recommend debian 12 works like charm