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Couple ideas, depending on what you have:

• When the warm water pipe heats up
• when the water heater starts drawing more power
• when the water meter detects warm water usage in the evening
• when the sound volume goes up in the bathroom
• when the weight sensors go off under the shower (or around it as you get in)
• when a movement sensor detects movement in the shower
• when a magnetic door sensor sees the shower curtains open
• when you press a (waterproof) button in the shower
• when a weight sensor under the shampoo holder detects less weight

My custom Kinoite-based system using ublue-builder. Gets me updates with 0 interference with my daily use, secure boot, tpm based FDE, and I can still install packages during the CI step (although distrobox is the main way to do that).

I’ve been on Linux since my childhood (found it in a tech magazine in 2008), hopped through Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, and Manjaro until like 2022 when I settled on Fedora KDE, then shifted to their immutable stuff 1-2 years later.

You’re pretty much describing Tailscale with an exit node on the VPS. If the purpose of the VPS is to make their traffic not come from your home, you can omit the VPS entirely as Tailscale only routes through the VPN when reaching services also on the VPN.

Edit: to self host it, look into Headscale, but the default, hosted control server works well too.

No idea, but if I was the dev, I’d ship the alpine image embedded in the app

Iirc there’s some rule on iOS where your app can’t be designed to execute code not delivered through the app store. So even if Mozilla ditched the embedded safari, I don’t think they could.

If you can get into the system, systemctl reboot --firmware-setup should tell your laptop to reboot into the UEFI ui

Just in case you haven’t started reinstalling yet, and has a transaction history. I can’t look a link up right now, but the command goes something like “dnf history undo <number>”, where the number is the transaction id of the transaction that installed KDE connect. You can find the transaction id in “dnf history”

Depending on your specs, I don’t think you need to buy hardware. You can scale later if you run out of resources. This is how I’d separate your stuff:

• Desktop: SteamOS (or Bazzite IMO), for gaming. Install Kodi on it for the HTPC interface, and add a shortcut to it on the big picture UI
• RPi: Home Assistant OS. They have images for the Pi, which will let you install updates and addons from the gui. Addons are just containers, so you may be able to run a service or two if you run out of resources on the other machines.
• Compute stick: Some server OS (I personally like Fedora Server, but loads of options are available here. Bazzite is Fedora based, so you can use knowledge you gain on one, on the other). Nextcloud (reconsider this, Nextcloud is a complaint magnet from what I can well, there are alternatives to most of its functions), your *arrs, torrent client etc. Stuff that is okay if it goes down for a bit.
• Laptop: Same OS as the compute stick. Whatever doesn’t fit the stick, plus Pihole/Adguard. For DNS though, I’d recommend using a cloud provider instead of self hosted, because if it goes down, you’ll be stuck reconfiguring your DNS before fixing it (since if dns goes down, you can’t easily access websites to look up stuff). IMO NextDNS is a good option, both free and paid tiers, and it does adblock lists too.

Edit:

• For remote management, ZeroTier and Tailscale are both good options at the moment. I use Tailscale, but they recently announced they want to IPO at some point, so I’ll be moving to Headscale (the self hosted version essentially) if they start enshittifying.
• For remote gaming, check if Steam remote play works, or set up a Sunshine server on your PC.