This is funny as the Vietnamese joke about Chinese this way, they have a saying that translates as, ‘the only thing they don’t eat with 4 legs is a table’

It’s great to see what tiny issues resonate with their massive self doubt though, tiny hands or fucking couches

Kinda true, some places develop on machines that don’t have Internet access, air gap between the sensitive data and an outward facing network

Does it make sense to host your own content instead of upload to someone else’s?

There’s a few boards that bridge the gap between pi and a pc for media servers and small NAS uses. Look at Asus Tinker board, Odroid, Udoo Bolt, Orange Pi, Rockpro64, BeagleBone

Yeah the celeron and pentium models are amazing low power machines to run Home Assistant on. Mine is running half a dozen other docker addons including frigate to do ai object detection (offloading most of the heavy lifting to a Google coral chip plugged into usb)

Being the default industry standard meant drivers were never a hassle