@Gimpydude
@lemmynsfw.comI agree with preventing your ISP from being able to see your traffic, but not necessarily on the mitm attacks. In either case, a mitm needs to be positioned properly.
As far as the ISP seeing your DNS traffic, there are ways to derive your real IP based on DNS queries. DNS leaks are a thing. It's not necessarily true that 100% of your traffic is encrypted.
I'm all for the use of vpns but why do you call it basic internet hygiene? Your traffic will just have a different egress point on the Internet, it doesn't really provide any additional security unless you are using it to access private networks.
If my kids are playing a video game with their kids and think *Dad would have liked this" that's as much as I want to be remembered.
I haven't done it other than for testing, but you can pair a fire Stick remote to a PC using Bluetooth and it works with Kodi.
Also instead of savings, put the money into a no fee index fund. Something that tracks the market like vtsax or similar.