Even things that don’t use plastic packaging have plastics in their packaging - airtight seals on the inside of jar lids and the coating on the inside of soup cans come to mind. Can definitely reduce plastic consumption but I don’t think going plastic free is possible unless you’re raising your own food and the seeds/feed also come in plastic free packaging…

Can’t help with the towels sticking issue, but how do you like the unit? Wife and I are considering getting one of those GE heat pump combo units this year.

Nah. My older 1080p stuff remains, but I just do 4k only now. Media server is powerful enough to transcode to 1080 on the fly for any device that can’t handle 4k, or for slower network conditions.

I use Linux Mint, mostly because I’m familiar with it. If I was to redo it, I would likely just run Debian.