Well, I don’t know anything about hooking it up to a streaming service, but I would personally really suggest the overboard way you mentioned tbh. Just set up qbittorrent with a few choice plugins (I literally just have 1337x and that has not failed me yet) and use that PC you mentioned (HDD size permitting) to run a small media server of whatever you’d like. Sorry of that is really not what you want, I’ve just found it to be the best media setup personally.

It’s really not, until it is. I personally see it as a fallback infrastructure for redundency if Tor, VPNs, Bittorrent, etc. go dark. But other than that, no, it doesn’t really serve much of a purpose rn.

I will start out by saying I was not the person who downvoted you, and while I also agree that anyone can run a honeypot obviously, that phrase IS inherently pro-corporation and capitalist. If you wrote out in it’s entirely what it means, it’s arguing that you can’t trust anyone with your security unless they’re a business you’re paying. Which is objectively encouraging people to side with capitalism over the open source and community based internet. Which is really the only reason why I point out the flaw in that phrase. The phrase is as inherently political as privacy itself is.

Laughs in FOSS

Related: I motion that we really should stop using that advice so blanketly, and instead say “If the product is free and run by capitist entities, you’re the product.”

No, I beleive that is just a snowflake proxy, which basically is just used when somebody first connects to the tor network to hook them up to an entrance node. So your computer is not actually acting as a node but rather an intermediary. I would also suggest not using Brave browser because I have heard bad things about it’s owner and just their general policies. Many people say that brave browser is really just privacy cosplay. You can just get a copy of firefox and manually harden it yourself using noscript and a vpn. Or skip that and just use tor browser for all your privacy intensive stuff.

Brave is privacy snakeoil targeting gamers and crypto-bros. I would highly suggest using something like Ironfox or even just regular firefox, but hardened manually.