Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).
For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.
I use Home Assistant, and install that on all my old, re-purposed smartphones (usually as cheap CCTV). Each phone is plugged into a smart power socket.
I then use automation to turn a phone's charger off when it hits 80%, then back on when it reaches 50%. No overcharging, no overheating, and actually helps keep the batteries in good shape.
For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn't appear in my library at all, so I don't really care. Even better, I've spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.
Not heaps, although I should probably do more than I do. Generally speaking, on Saturday mornings:
unattended-upgrades, so I test inbound functionality on thoseWhat I still want to do is develop some Ansible playbooks to deploy unattended-upgrades across my fleet (~40ish Debian/docker LXCs). I fear I have some tech debt growing on those hosts, but have fallen into the convenient trap of knowing my internet-facing gear is the always up to date, and I can be lazy about the rest.
Believe it or not, a Netgear. Specifically this one. I don't have any fibre connected gear (yet!) and 180W of PoE+ was more than enough for my few PoE cameras and WAPs.
Yeah, 100% agree on the client devices. One of my VLANs is for the kids' devices. I don't trust their schools' admins or their shitty BYOD policies, so I just let them access Plex (via Nginx reverse proxy); Pi-hole; and the internet.
It all comes down to what you trust each type of device to do and how you want to handle their traffic.
I have seven VLANs, with each one's traffic being treated very specifically. The subnets for each VLAN route to specific interfaces on a virtualised OPNsense firewall, which is where my traffic handling and policy enforcement takes place.
Also remember VLANs are just plain useful for segregating traffic, particularly broadcast traffic, without having to invest in separate switching/routing for each subnet. Having a single managed switch that limits the broadcast domains for you is a really efficient way to (physically) setup your network.
Aaargh! Audible did this to the Stephen King Dark Tower series. Don't get me wrong - Frank Muller did OK in the books he read, but George Guidall (books 1, 5, 6 & 7) has an almost Johnny Cash quality to his voice, that just made his reading really fantastic to listen to.
Anything Fry does is just pure gold. I loved his 7 Deadly Sins podcast series .
Jesus - I thought COVID wiped all these twits out already.
I already use Home Assistant for a number of other things, so not really complex. Also, you're assuming Android only.