A homeschool association… although the article said he was also worked I think past tense with a school district.

Which hardware is recommended? Trying to search through their list a ton of it is already on old-stable and seemingly ready to be eol-d. I’m not really interested in spending on new routers playing whack a mole with security updates every 2 years. I’d rather have poor performance and a longer lifecycle versus unknown likely marginal support window.

I use pf as the firewall on my server, what is the difference/reason for the opnsense fork?

They also list my current one as unsupported unfortunately, I think because of the Broadcom WiFi chip in it.

That was one of the things I was considering was whether running a router before the WiFi and then just using them as access points might be a better choice.

I have fond memories of the og Xbox and the 360, guess I can’t really speak past that for enjoying them since that’s the last Xbox i owned

It was nice knowing Xbox while they lasted…

Realistically no. My wife primarily uses the ad blocking dns and smb file storage. I’ve built the server on FreeBSD so those should run near forever if I passed, and she knows she has until the server dies to find somewhere else to put her photos. Past that there’s a maintenance document next to the will, which includes everything up to how to replace drives on zfs, but I doubt she’d use it if I’m being honest.