They really aren’t that much more expensive than a high end smart TV. I’ve been seeing them at about $10(US) per inch. So a 60 inch TV is roughly $600(US). But I guess it all depends on availability of them in your local market.

If you are looking for a “dumb” TV, check out models that are for “digital signage” like the Samsung BEC-H series. They are as dumb as you can get while still buying new.

ZenArmor. It integrates nicely with Opnsense and offers all of the features that I was looking for.

I run a pretty hefty home lab, so my costs are fairly high compared to some.

• Electricity: $70/mo
• Internet: $55/mo (1000x35)
• Cloud backup: $20/mo
• Web firewall/IDS/IPS: $8.30/mo ($99/yr)
• Domain/email: $15/yr
• VPS: $1/mo

Overall: $155/mo

I’m a Sysadmin, so my names are purely functional:

host-pmx-01 through 03, my 3 node Proxmox cluster

vm-[SERVICE], optional 01-03 if needed

ct-[SERVICE], for LXC containers

It makes it easy to reference things via DNS for service discovery.