Former attorney who now consults for corporate compliance departments/programs. I have zero formal training or professional practical experience, but tech has always been my strongest hobby. I decided to self host as much as possible almost 20 years ago starting with media libraries and email; it stemmed from a deep distrust of the tech industry.

GL.iNet’s travel routers have a USB port and support plugging in a EHDD to share over the network they create.

This is all going to depend on your risk tolerance, overall attack surface, and network topology.

1. What’s the hardware?
2. Debian, imho

The chips in these TVs are garbage and will only get worse (relative to current tech) as they age. Get a set top playback device and use exclusively that. Shield Pro is still solid, AppleTV hardware is solid too. Below those are Roku and Fire devices, they will do nearly as well.

How far out on the roadmap is docker build?