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Cake day: January 17th, 2025

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  • I am just going to keep using 10 regardless of whether it has support or not. Yes its missing features yes there is some potential for security issues but I think the chances that my computer on my lan could be remotely compromised to be relatively slim. Other security threats would require that I visit some kind of malicious website or application which I think would be unlikely. I don’t even think running win XP or win 7 on a secure lan would be a significant concern since it is behind a firewall anyway. I do intend to switch to Linux at some point but the lack of support from Microsoft is not enough to convince me to upgrade to 11 or make the switch.











  • I might consider kodi since it will probably be more organized. Vlc will have normal file navigation but with kodi it will organize everything into movies and TV shows. If its going to be a purely offline device then you can just flash a custom ROM and see a decent amount of savings. It will likely be difficult to find a current generation phone with an sdcard and a tablet might make more sense for this use case. If you know you are gonna flash the device you are going to get you should make sure it has decent custom ROM support. Generally if it has an official lineageos build then it is well supported. All of this might honestly be more trouble than it is worth if you are not experienced with flashing a custom ROM so maybe just start with stock and see if you actually need to first.


  • Also if you do go this route and are concerned about privacy and security you can get a cheap vps then setup a VPN (wireguard probably) on the vps and have your home server connect to that. Then you can forward the vps ports to the VPN IP of your home server. This means that you don’t need to have port forwarding or even a dedicated IP at home and users don’t get your home IP. Keep in mind you need a vps that is relatively close to your house to keep the latency down as this setup will add twice the latency between home and the vps to the connection.