Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
In case anyone else was wondering the same thing, I more or less answered the question for myself.
The short answer is that there's no point in buying a kit computer for streaming when you can get a Fire TV, Xiaomi Mi Box, or WeTek Hub which can not only install Kodi 17, but can also do Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. at 4K. I'm probably going with the Fire TV, but the Mi Box is tempting for ~$20 less. WeTek has to ship from UK and the Hub is the same price as the Fire TV without offering any advantages I can see, so I ruled that one out.
I ended up just ordering a RPi 3 for pi-hole and whatever else I can think of doing with it. Could have stuck with the Pi Zero W, but I'm skeptical about running a DNS server on a wireless-only device. I know people say it works fine but I just don't trust wireless for anything even if it would be sitting 2' from my router.
The short answer is that there's no point in buying a kit computer for streaming when you can get a Fire TV, Xiaomi Mi Box, or WeTek Hub which can not only install Kodi 17, but can also do Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. at 4K. I'm probably going with the Fire TV, but the Mi Box is tempting for ~$20 less. WeTek has to ship from UK and the Hub is the same price as the Fire TV without offering any advantages I can see, so I ruled that one out.
I ended up just ordering a RPi 3 for pi-hole and whatever else I can think of doing with it. Could have stuck with the Pi Zero W, but I'm skeptical about running a DNS server on a wireless-only device. I know people say it works fine but I just don't trust wireless for anything even if it would be sitting 2' from my router.