For proper desktop Linux in that price range a used surface is a choice. It’ll be bigger and less battery life than an android tablet and I don’t know what the fan situation is in the generations in that price range now.

Another option is go with an Android tablet that has LineageOS support. You get fullish access to the system, but the system is still Android, so depends on what you want if that works for you.

They used to say that 10 would be the last version and they’d just update that

They know which IP address belongs to which customer at the time and anybody can download a torrent of some copyrighted content and see which IP addresses are down or uploading it at any given moment. No need to inspect RAM, no need for DO to monitor traffic. They (the copyright holders) will send a cease and desist through DO already, and could change to send a lawsuit instead.

Jellyfin was forked when emby went closed source, I don’t think it had anything much to do with any specific event at plex

Shellshock happened in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)

Don’t give it internet access during setup.

I think there is, but AFAIK they can use it for something very minor and it still counts.