Just accelerate at full power and the doors will close themselves, duh.

All devices get individual exposed IP addresses, then you just control the flow of access through which interface. I guess…

In my country we even avoid giving mushrooms we know are safe, nearly impossible to harvest incorrectly, to children under 4 because they may be hard on the digestive system.

Technitium dns (and dhcp) server instead of pihole maybe, with advanced blocking app.

I use mailu, find it quite lightweight as well.

How to factor in independence from BigTech and privacy gained?

Democracy 🤷‍♂️

I always find this interesting. It seems that some people have constant issues (headphones, earphones, mice, …), like my wife, and some people never have any issues, like me.