A better headline would be “those reliant on social safety net don’t want to lose said safety net.”

Ah yes, wages are down because of moving away from the gold standard. It certainly has nothing to do with the death of unions in this country, de-regulation, or offshoring jobs.

I use pf as the firewall on my server, what is the difference/reason for the opnsense fork?

They also list my current one as unsupported unfortunately, I think because of the Broadcom WiFi chip in it.

That was one of the things I was considering was whether running a router before the WiFi and then just using them as access points might be a better choice.

Realistically no. My wife primarily uses the ad blocking dns and smb file storage. I’ve built the server on FreeBSD so those should run near forever if I passed, and she knows she has until the server dies to find somewhere else to put her photos. Past that there’s a maintenance document next to the will, which includes everything up to how to replace drives on zfs, but I doubt she’d use it if I’m being honest.