I bought a shell of a supermicro super storer, put ATX components in it, and outfitted it with 8x 10 TB drives in ZFS RAID Z2.

I have to 50 TB of storage and I can scale to 200 TB relatively easily. Streaming services are gone in my household.

Are there TVs that require an internet connection to simply use without “smart” features?

Based

Debian is a great pick. It’s stable and has a great support community.

It’s not quietly making them worse. It’s pretty obvious.

Debian on every last one of my computers and servers

This is 17 years old.