Take this with a huge grain of salt, but I remember hearing once that the eyes are kind of an external piece of the brain.

I have this too on occasion! Although, I think I had this problem on another podcast player before I switched.

Fiery Habanero Doritos

Works on the AMD Pro series GPUs and my 6800xt on Pop OS

No need to worry, those security patches would be millennia ahead of any contemporaneous trojans.

Alliteration, Rhythm, Rhyme, and I like properly made tea.

Cheapest would probably be the Raspberry Pi/Orange Pi route.

I gave up trying to make an HTPC (using Kodi, ChimeraOS, etc). It wasn’t worth the hassle and ended up settling for an Apple TV.