Best one I ever got was a Kenwood TS-520S amateur radio transceiver (I'd passed my Novice Class License exam by that point, but the radio was $700 in 1978 - my awesome dad took a leap of faith, and I'm still using it today, though it's been largely supplanted by a more modern one.) 2nd best geeky gift: one of those Radio Shack 150-in-1 electronic project kits in 1976 or so. Both crucially important gifts, in addition to being turbo awesome.
Reasons this is terrible:
1. Plex sucks.
2. This is nothing but a money-harvesting aimed at the clueless, under the guise of "convenience."
3. Bandwidth requirements.
4. Moving all your media to "the cloud" for money is waaay safer, smarter and more reliable than, say, controlling it yourself locally for free.
5. The cost far eclipses the annual 1/3 of a pittance you'd pay for the electricity required to run basically any local device as a media server.
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Best one I ever got was a Kenwood TS-520S amateur radio transceiver (I'd passed my Novice Class License exam by that point, but the radio was $700 in 1978 - my awesome dad took a leap of faith, and I'm still using it today, though it's been largely supplanted by a more modern one.) 2nd best geeky gift: one of those Radio Shack 150-in-1 electronic project kits in 1976 or so. Both crucially important gifts, in addition to being turbo awesome.
Reasons this is terrible: 1. Plex sucks. 2. This is nothing but a money-harvesting aimed at the clueless, under the guise of "convenience." 3. Bandwidth requirements. 4. Moving all your media to "the cloud" for money is waaay safer, smarter and more reliable than, say, controlling it yourself locally for free. 5. The cost far eclipses the annual 1/3 of a pittance you'd pay for the electricity required to run basically any local device as a media server.