This all day. USB3 has plenty of bandwidth to keep those spinners busy, and a cheap pc can be bought for under $200 that would handle all the services op described, plus more.

I bought an n150 with 12gb RAM, dual 2.5gb nic, built in nvme and USB 3.2. it uses like 15w of power, is basically silent, and with a 5 bay HDD attached I’ve got enough storage for whatever.

Building a home lab server from components is only a good idea if you have some really specific use case not covered by cheap imports…

Harry and the Hendersons when they make him leave. Lithgow telling him he wasn’t wanted 😢

At this stage I don’t know - but they seem to describe a setup where they are essentially providing a WiFi 7 router as an access point, which connects to another piece of hardware acting as the gateway

If the exploit happens over Ethernet, why do you need to have the TV?

Edit: the exploit doesn’t require the TV, it’s just a novel way to do it