How much is a Chrome box with those specs?

300 EUR for refurbished devices with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD is very reasonable.

Check out refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad TinyPCs. Small, quiet and durable.

You can also buy refurbished Lenovo Thinkstation TinyPCs. These are low-power, small and quiet.

In order to find content, we used to have webrings, directory services, and then search engines. Most people don’t enter URLs by hand.

You do understand that a P2P proof of work backed global store is just infrastructure? And as egalitarian as DNS servers? And it doesn’t have the storage/compute footprint of a full bitcoin node.

The space of human-readable names is quite small, so proof of work is needed to protect it from being flooded. An alternative is to have your servers have names to be or derived from their public keys, or dissolve content from its location. Which brings its own problems.

There are authorityless blockchain-backed name registration services. In general, it is important whether you can localize a resource. If you can easily find it, the name doesn’t have to human-readable.

Opnsense is also that, and more. Compare the list of its packages with OpenWRT. Plus, it’s BSD based.

Postfix, but even with full spf dkim etc. monty not guaranteed to be always delivered to Gmail and Outlook. Because these don’t give a shit about standards.

As to PC, there are coreboot/libreboot and RISCV as more open options. Phone and tablet, GrapheneOS and LineageOS. Projectors, any dumb projector.

Is it shipping yet? Looks US-only.

Opnsense is a great router/firewall. OpenWRT is fine for WiFi APs.

So the expensive infrastructure for DPI that that takes, who’s going to pay for that? And just where are you going to buy it? China?