I don’t like em but no need to kill them unless they are tasty.

I was once bitten by a gøøse. It was pretty nasti.

They are entitled, angry and dumb assholes.

I do not understand why they are protected. There are so many of these pricks where I live. I fantasize about raiding their nests in the spring for big delicious eggs!

They love crossing roads slowly because fuck you. If you maintain your speed all of a sudden they get out of the way. If you slow and wait, they will take ages to cross.

Wife was giving me a hard time because I don’t slow down for them. I told her that if a goose were driving and you were crossing they’d run you over and honk after they did it.

No love for these bastards. All they do is turn grass into gooey green goose shit all day.

A duck is far better.

I have built and maintained all manner of home servers using inexpensive used hardware. Any PC or old laptop can do this stuff. Unless you’re doing something crazy on them, I’ve not encountered a lot of situations that I could not sort out. Usually throwing some more memory and storage into them solves most issues.

I ran a used desktop machine with an i3 processor (retired school system) for YEARS as my NAS with zero issues beyond adding a little cooling. Did the same with a firewall, worked for ages with no issues.

Getting a mini pc is nice if you are putting it in your living room, but there are still many choices for small form factor devices. Not quite as small, but still pretty small. Lots of them were used as POS terminals at stores. Wipe 'em, reload and start fresh.