If you go this route I recommend installing Kodi + Jellyfin Plugin + Kore Android App. You can control everything from your phone or laptop.

Except the vast majority of the kernel is in driver modules.

So for an individual machine, the attack surface is not really any bigger than it needs to be.

The OS will only load modules it needs for your hardware, so the “bloat” only exists at the source code and binary size level. You are free to compile an optimized binary for your hardware. The complete kernel binary should fit in a 200MB boot partition.

As for maintenance, that’s a fair point, but the effort is at least somewhat distributed if hardware devs provide the drivers.

Boomers on Facebook are mostly a lost cause so we just have to assume they won’t be part of any kind of new social media movement.

This would be more believable if Elon paid his cloud bills.

It’s almost 30 years old. Not to knock cURL, it’s a staple for sure.

HTTPie and xh claim to have a more intuitive UX. If the functionality is comparable, I choose tools written in memory-safe languages by default.

xh is a nice modern alternative.

Silverbullet is nice