Which ones do you think are bad recommendations?

The closest thing is LTSC, it still has some telemetry but less than the main version. They haven't released LTSC for Windows 11 yet though.

That and the bouncing icons when an app is loading... always thought that looked tacky.

It's not implemented yet, but tubearchivist https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist has a podcast mode on their roadmap which I've been keeping an eye on.

Ditch the Roku and get another Shield or other Android TV device.

Sceptre still makes dumb TVs at a reasonable price.

Probably because they see it as a weaponization of the justice department. Several of the indictments are using novel legal theories, and the timing coincides with Trump's reelection campaign.

yt-dlg works well for me: https://yt-dlg.github.io/yt-dlg/

Oh man, Silent Hill 2 and 3 are some of my favorite games, the atmosphere is just perfect. I started playing Resident Evil 7 in VR and the part at the very beginning where you go down into the basement and I just noped out and haven't tried it since. Will probably give it another go eventually...

BuyVM has some reasonably priced servers available.

Regardless of your opinion of RFK Jr, censorship has no place in a free society. I'm not comfortable with Google and other megacorps being the arbiters of truth.