This is the correct answer if privacy is your priority. They’re not particularly cheap, however.

I’ve done the same! It’s impossible to buy dumb TVs nowadays, but you can always prevent them from connecting to the network.

Chuck 'em in the garbage and get something that doesn’t break when you insist on privacy.

Fair enough.

Thank you for the detailed response! I’m going to give it a try! This will be a step up from OpenWRT on a cheap router, I’ll bet!

Can a device like this act as my router?

Unraid is a great option for anyone, but beginners in particular. It does, however, cost money and isn’t open source.

Sorry, the video takes too long to get to the subject it claims to be about.

It can also be caused by prions. Mad cow disease is aka bovine spongiform encephalitis. I believe the word just indicates cell death in the brain which leaves regions of dead tissue.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

Also, you can host your own server: https://headscale.net/

Alright, I’ll say it: non-consensual sex.

*effect

But, yes, me too.

You’d also need GPIO pins to be able to do the remote “button presses”.

Check out pikvm: https://pikvm.org/

There are cheaper knockoffs that run the same software. For example: https://geekworm.com/

Decent older servers (e.g., Dell Poweredge) can be had off of Craigslist/FB Marketplace pretty cheaply (~$300-$400).

Right on, dude. I hope the transition is a pleasant one for you!

You can also achieve this with any VPN by using two Docker containers:

1. Gluetun: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
2. Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1282/docker/

Set Gluetun up to connect to your VPN (they support a huge number of providers) and then set the Tailscale container to use the Gluetun’s network. Then, use that Tailscale container as your exit node.

You can also combine this with a self-hosted Headscale (https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) instance.

Do it, my friend. I took the leap ~5 years ago and have not once regretted it. You’re right, you have Wine and Windows VMs available, if need be. But, honestly, I bet you end up replacing those work flows with better ones within Linux before long.

But, were they worth it?