Having a personal media server that's online 24/7 is an underrated luxury. It gives you complete control over your media, enhancing your streaming experience in this age of enshittification of ...

tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...