Never had a single ad on any Galaxy phone I've owned and that's probably the last 5 or 6. I've also had a few pixels mixed in.
They're far from shitty phones. Great battery life, great performance , great cameras... have you ever actually used one and compared it, or are you just regurgitating crap you hear.
All these machines will continue to run, so if they're not going to upgrade to win 11 and buy a new machine then what does it matter. They'll just use a win 10 machine with no updates forever. Security concerns aside obviously.
Don't know what phone you have, but the built in My Files app on my Galaxy s23 has SMB support. Lists and connects to my Linux samba server and my Windows shares perfectly.
Netdata 100%
It feeds my itch for more data than I know what to do with and it's presented in one of the cleanest ways I've ever seen for so much info.