Here I am just learning that there are tv remotes with voice recognition.

Cool as that sounds… tv screens with built in ads sound terrible and maybe it’s a blessing to be behind the times.

Hmm I can’t say I’ve ever used the voice features. But I (unfortunately) got my family into the Roku ecosystem awhile ago (before streaming blew up, we had got rid of DirecTV longgggg ago when it became too expensive and my dad had lost his job) and every single Roku device we’ve ever had except for the 2018 Roku Premiere+ just slowly gets more and more broken over time. The interface will take multiple seconds to respond to a button press after a couple years or so. It’s so bad that we have a Roku TV that’s so slow that there’s a Roku device plugged into it that we use instead, and even that device is so slow that I’m washing it got burned with fire. On top of that I can tell that certain apps know that they’re running on crappy hardware and software (particularly the Sling TV app), and deliver footage at a horrendously low video quality as a result.

Nah, not really. It’s gonna be cat and mouse with pihole.
Only there will be 5000 cats and 200 mouses.

U can’t win fight as a mouse - use a Kodi and don’t play by enemy rules.

If u care as much