I think a far better option for you then is building your own router, duel ethernet nuc + cheap ethernet switch or a rasberry pi + switch would both run fine and leave some headroom for running a firewall+dns+vpn+etc
Any reason you won't use OpenWrt? If you'd prefer linux then Tomato might be a better project for you. Routers that can run Tomato most likely can run libreCMC with some tweaks or patches from tomato applied
The "a" series is googles budget phones, they also use budget storage (ufs 3.1), its by no means super slow but definitely could be a contributing factor if your archive is very big with lots of random writes and reads
This should be a well know, but often misunderstood thing. Lots of reddit selfhosting threds urge people to buy a new mini-pc for its "low power draw" when usually its the same or 1-2watts less then a laptop from 2012. However performace to watt is much higher, so if you need massive preformance new is much better, if your system is idling most of the time anyway, basically no diffrence in buying old
The thing about Guix (and Nix) is that there doesnt need to be a package in the repos. You can either make your system automatically compile from source (which is how many AUR packages work) or use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software
Yea I also assumed it was just shot on a budget phone that compensates its sub-par cameras by way overprocessing the photo, since I used those my whole life LOL
Had the same problem on fedora (no issue on bazzite, nobara, or arch). First time it was xwayland that kept crashing without a display present for some reason, second time I never solved since I was distro hopping the fedora family of distros but it seemed to be a problem with SDDM
Oooo what are you making here? I was gonna draw a heart in the empty space by KDE but I can move it if u need