I just encrypt devices that leave the house. I do have access to a hard drive crusher if I lose a drive (recently crushed a tablet that wouldn't power on)
I work in a state government and we can't "donate", but I have happily paid thousands for maintenance/support or hosted options. I appreciate when projects offer other ways to contribute.
Yikes, I haven't used MQTT what so ever yet. Willing to learn but I was really hoping to just connect it to WiFi and straight into home assistant without messing with a broker. I just hate that Chamberlain pulled what they did.
I like Promox for home, and XCP-NG for work. I'm just significantly more resource constrained at the house then work, so container management in the main interface is nice. At work, everything is a VM with containers on top (when needed)
I'm impressed, my best I feel is to turn on the outside fans when a person is detected and the temp is over 86 (I don't know why I picked 86, seemed appropriate at the time)
An elevated platform that is raised on one side (forming a "back") designed with the intent of sitting... No "back" = stool