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A pi can definitely be used, but you may get much better performance for a similar price getting a refurbished pc, adding a second nic, and installing something like opnsense.

I’m going to be testing XigmaNAS. If I’m not crazy about it I’ll likely just run a pure install of FreeBSD

I’d love to know who deemed adding more clicks to get to features an improvement.

I’m a fan. It took me a few weeks of properly rating (raising, lowering, and blocking) to get truly customized results. Once I did though, I found I’m able to research far faster than before. I’ve also become a fan of their AI assistant. It has multiple llm’s to choose from and is more private than using them directly.

I wonder how cloud accessibility plays into this. In the past if I had a dedicated windows app I might typically have maybe a hundred windows desktops accessing onsite servers. Nowadays I can replace that with thin clients and cloud based RDSH servers.

I’d likely use a case in this instance. I remember dropping the Pixel 5 several times for that reason.

Knowing it’s so easy to repair, do you think it’s worth bothering with a case and/or screen protector?

Have you had to replace any parts yet?