The last movie I watched in a theater was Top Gun Maverick.

like “only update X when on WiFi”.

Most Linux software only updates when the user tells the package manager to update it.>

There haven’t been many good movies lately. It’s been 3 years since there was one good enough for me to watch in a theater. Hollywood has just been producing large volumes of low quality crap lately.

Most of the music I listen to is from the 70’s through the 90’s. I already have just about everything I want to listen to.

It doesn’t, but running everything through a tunnel to get IPv4 access would. OP wants only the IPv4 traffic to go over a tunnel.

The game developers could if they wanted to, but I hope they won’t. I will not willingly install a rootkit on any of my computers. I wouldn’t buy or pirate a game that requires one even if it could run on Linux. I don’t even like running user level anti cheat, but at least that can be run in a sandbox.

I started getting most of my definitely public domain stuff from TorrentLeech when TG started having issues. Keep an eye out for an open signup. The rest comes from RuTracker, 1337x and The Pirate Bay.

My NAS uses a similar amount of power. The drives use most of the power. The PC uses less than 20W on its own. Upgrading to a couple of large helium filled drives will save a good bit of power. SATA drives tend to use a little less power than SAS drives too.

There’s a lot of stuff that you can’t even buy now.

Have you tried Tiny Core Linux? It supports a 486DX, but they recommend a Pentium 2. I think the biggest issue you will have is finding programs that will run on such old hardware.

They should just remove the DRM from all streaming services. The fact that new TV shows can be downloaded within minutes of airing is a good indicator that it doesn’t work for its intended purpose. It just makes me find another source since I can’t watch them using my preferred browser and operating system.

If you stretch, kink, or squish a CAT5 cable, there is a good chance that it will not work at 1G even if none of the conductors are broken or shorted. Sometimes they will initially connect at 1G, then fall back to 100M after some random amount of time making troubleshooting more annoying.

If find the missed call notifications to be very helpful. I never remember to check my phone, but I’m on the computer all the time. I also like the ability to remote control the music player from my phone since the computer is hooked up to an amplifier with speakers in multiple rooms.

My dynamic IPv6 prefix hasn’t changed in a couple of years. It only changed because I reset the router config and that changed my DUID. That’s good enough for everything I host. I don’t even bother with dynamic DNS anymore.

I wouldn’t bother with trying to host an email server from a residential connection though. Even if you can get your ISP to open port 25 for you, many email servers won’t accept mail from residential IP addresses.

Streaming sites go down all the time and the quality is usually terrible. Downloading the same stuff every time you want to watch it is just wasting the seeders bandwidth.

If you need IPv6, you can get a free tunnel from Hurricane Electric. They will give you a /48 if you request it. I used it for years since my old ISP didn’t have IPv6. I am close to one of their servers, so the latency was very low.

Double that and you could probably even run a GUI.

If you only have one slot, you can always put the old drive in a USB4 enclosure and turn it into a really fast flash drive.

Widevine L3 can be screen captured on Linux. Widevine L1 only plays on certain “trusted” hardware and can’t be screen captured.

I prefer to use FOSS software. There is a risk of getting malware from pirated software. Even if there is no malware, commercial software usually has lots of tracking and telemetry anyways.

I hate streaming anything unless it’s coming from my server.

Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.