Current Kagi user paying for it privately. They offer top ups to your account with crypto. I do xmr -> btc to top up my account. Also signed up with an alias email.

I believe DV HDR is being downgraded to HDR10+. I can't really tell the difference though. I still get the little 'HDR' logo when I try to play a DV HDR movie.

Moonlight and a bunch of virtualized windows PCs sharing a graphics card. Makes setting and packing the LAN much less of an ordeal.

+1 for the Nvidia Shield and LineageOS route. Keep in mind that LineageOS doesn't work with some proprietary features on the box such as:

• Dolby Vision
• AI Upscaling

Although this hasn't really bothered me. This solution is basically set and forget. Is stable enough to leave at my parents house with almost no complaints.

Also another weird usecase... I use these nvidia shields for my LAN parties as thin clients.

This video and its accompanying github repo got me started recently.

Some apps may complain about the lack of Google if you don't install Microg. But apart from that, been really happy. This was one of the last parts of my life I was waiting to properly degoogle.

For the moment, I've settled with our TV staying disconnected. All the 'smart' features are managed by an Nvidia shield Pro with LineageOS.

I've been using it for a while, since the alpha. The mobile and desktop apps have matured nicely with a nice consistent UI. I've jumped from Joplin, to logseq, and now happy with anytype.

I've generally had a positive experience with duplicati to backup unraid to backblaze. Recently had time to test my encrypted backup, and had no problem restoring it.