I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.
Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven’t already.
Not if they’re baked into the system. Although that may get into GPL violations, I forget. God knows a device can come with locked firmware though.