This. Plex doesnt need a lot of resources, I ran it from a raspberry pi 3 for years without issue.

Same I used to scroll for hours, when I first heard it applied to social media/smartphones I was like “???”

Pushing someone, even gently, to change something about their routines almost always causes them to become defensive and double down. The most effective way to enact change in someone else is to discuss how the changes you’ve made have benefited yourself.

What you’ve described is not what this post is about.

A discussion on encryption would be on the topic of digital privacy. Tone policing an employee of a company none of us even work for is not.

This topic isn’t about privacy it’s about workplace culture

What does your IoT network look like? A second wifi router? Mesh?

This is my white whale. There is a guy making LineageOS versions of Android TV that seem to work well for some people but in my experience are buggy and I couldn’t get CEC working no matter what I tried.

Libreelec (kodi) works fantastic and CEC is flawless with every device I tested, but Kodi these days is really only good for local media (not Plex, Jellyfin, Youtube or streaming services) and real-debrid.

KDE Bigscreen is my last hope, but it’s probably going to be a while before it’s ready, not even including the inevitable wait for TV-interface versions of streaming apps that can run on ARM (if you’re using a raspi).