It's really nice - and it's not really the cost ... it's the avoidance of the rugpull.

I've spent WAY MORE on my hardware and setup in time, money, and DVDs than I ever would have for streaming services, but I know if it goes down, it's on me.

Absolutely. If there is a fiber cut in my driveway I still have my home network running just the same.

If hardware ever cheaper I will also run an instance of Project Nomad:

https://www.projectnomad.us/

If you don’t need the local LLM feature that I don’t see why that shouldn’t just run on a Raspberry Pi 4+.