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[Gilliland]

PS - maybe that is the explanation for my local display problems, too.  If the system is that busy, it might take a while to fully render the display.  If I find that I need to start again from scratch, I will do it without the USB drive until I get the system configured.

It really is just excruciatingly slow.  Most of the time (really, all of the time) there is a spinning circle up next to the "m" on the right, except that most of the time it isn't actually spinning, it is just stopped.  Something seems to be hogging a LOT of resources - enough that even the spinning disk isn't getting serviced.

Later edit: OK, clueless user error. I had defined my I2S DAC to the system, but I didn't realize that I also had to select it in the section above. So the system was trying to send audio to an HDMI device that has no audio capability. It must have been working pretty hard on that because as soon as I changed the output to the defined DAC, the system began to respond normally and actually produced music for me!

Unfortunately, the local display has gone back to being a plain white rectangle. Apparently that problem is not due to slow rendering. The remote browser is working perfectly, but the local display is (for now) a failure. I'm not sure what to try to fix that. I guess the first step is just to restart the system and see if that changes anything. [Nope, it didn't.] [Also tried a different HDMI cable. No change.]

Is there a better place for this topic? I can start a new thread rather than continuing here.