I must remind you where your Bluray Remux release is sourced from.

A better price as low density chips are cheaper.
And you can fit in more of those in a bigger space = Cheaper.

That SanDisk is it’s own company now.
But I don’t k ow if they are still a subsidiary or completely spun of WD.

If you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB

Considering the high prices for high density SSD chips…
Why are there no 3.5" SSDs with low density chips?

Buying music CD and either ripping to flac or pirating flac after it (physically) arrived to keep it sealed.

So you wanna tell me your NAS is a Data Lake? ;D

Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.

Backup: VEEAM01
DC: DC1
VM for taxes and other stuff I don’t want on my main pc: ZAHLNIX01 (tl: not paying anything)
NAS01: My NAS file share VM
TEST01: Testing VM
Appoxo-PC2: My main PC (as it’s mark 2)
Proxmox host: PVE2 (I planned a cluster but have no other nuc to use in the cluster)
NAS: Current jellyfin and main docker host
PiNAS02: My Raspberry Pi 4

As you see: Very creative.

Totally fair. Just as a suggestion.

You ask for a “why deploy this [software]” in this community?

Anyway…Simply: Why not? =)

What I am missing is ESXi/vSphere. Would be quite important for the few people that have access to the eval ressources to set it up.
Same for the BSD versions. I think Beehive?

And that’s why you have either a backup for your DNS or know whats auto-updated ;)

As you mention opnsense:
What do you mean with fw rules to only use pihole dns?
This sounds partly like a DHCP config and partly like a deny (hardcoded) DNS requests and to please use what DHCP supplied (looking at you google/amazon)

I mean…if they pay for the service of external analization of data in exchange of money, how is that a sale of goods/data?