I now have a simple USB remote control. Since it's USB, it can wake up the PC from sleep when I press a button on it.
The USB-CEC would basically emulate a keyboard and send keys for the PC accordingly the CEC message the TV sends. If the PC is in sleep, the USB adapter could wake it up.
I've built a 2nd/3rd generation Intel PC out from a Small Formfactor HP machine.
Put 8GB of memory into it and a 500GB HDD. The whole thing costed me around... 35-40USD and got a remote for that machine for 20USD. It's under my TV, in sleep mode so the remote can wake it up any time and the Power button on it puts back to sleep.
Running libreELEC, which is a Linux system built around Kodi, and for Kodi there are lot of streaming plugins available - Netflix too. It can pretty much play back 1080p without issue, and maybe even 4k, but I couldn't test it properly because I have a Panasonic plasma TV and that's only full hd.
Had some stuttering issue with Wayland, but with x11 it runs perfectly. If I set up the video player to synch framerates at the beginning and end of the video, it runs smoothly.
These plugins use Kodi's UI, so they are easy to navigate. It can't get more comfortable than that, Kodi is way better than any shitty Smart TV system out there, especially those Android TV abominations.
So yeah, a 2011ish PC, a DVD/Blu-Ray drive, USB remote, libreELEC and you never need any other media player equipment.
One thing needs to be done, tho... I have to use DisplayPort <-> HDMI for video out and the adapter doesn't really communicate with the TV so have to build an USB/LPT-CEC interface for it (Arduino or Pi Pico) and with that, the TV would turn on/off, change to AV or back to TV when the power state changes of the PC and also would be able to control Kodi with the TV remote too.
I was 13 when I realized I might be a furry... and my fursona became a rabbit. why a rabbit... it's maybe bacause of a joke, but that's also kinda incorrect. But I have pretty much vibed with it.
Later on, I wanted my fursona to have a larger, wolf-like tail, because... well, tails are awesome.
At first. only the tail. then, as I aged, more and more wolf features got added to the point of today, 15 years later, where it's now a really strange dog by the looks. But I like it, it's a wolfrabbit.
Pretty much the software you run on it and the support behind it. And for now, energy consumption, but I can imagine 100 years now that won't be a factor anymore.
But that's probably falls under "no practical use"
I mean, with the proper software, you still can automate your house with a Commodore 64, or browse the web with an Amiga
I'm running Connect on a Galaxy Fold 4, which... is a fairly decent hardware. It runs smoothly, but some animation is still choppy or scrolling can be sometimes choppy.
also, I'm developing a flutter app, it's a frontend for online gallery, and scrolling through the thumbnails is already choppy in it. pretty sure one can take extra measures to reduce the choppyness, but by default it is how it is. having a flutter app that runs 60FPS is something that flutter devs are proud of, which is a bit funny IMO.
tho I don't have performance issues, it's true that I can see sometimes stutters and really small lags - but this is all because of Flutter, on which Connect is based.
I like a good coffee, can taste wonderfully.
However, a bad coffee is just pure liquid shit.