Same.

Allow me to introduce you to The Feederz.

Companies that are primarily device manufacturers pretty much suck at software development.

Some good options here. I’m a fan of TrueNAS from iX Systems. Very easy to build your own but I’ll admit my last box I just bought their mini and put in my own disks.

I’d avoid QNAP although they’ll do the job.

This is a bit bogus. I just retired a 2012 iMac because I needed a new version of macOS to match my other devices. The only thing I ever did to the iMac was replace the original fusion driver with a SATA SSD (Samsung). It ran faster - boot times well under 10 seconds from the Apple chime.

Replace the HDD with an SSD . Update it to the latest macOS that hardware supports and it will be fine for web, email, basic office duty stuff, if you are sticking to Apple. I could also Bootcamp and run four instances of EVE Online with no issues.

There are a bunch of other things you can do with it outside of macOS but it really is getting up there in age.

I’m not going to argue anything on that clip but it did make me laugh. People can be very clever.

You are going to love this.