What issues are you having with your reverse proxy? Home Assistant is light-years ahead of any other option

I'd be on the lookout for some cheap XM4s as they are worlds better than the XM3s but that is probably just me being salty about the dogshit battery life of the XM3s

APC is nice in an enterprise-like setup and the management software is really mature. That said, you don't get much for your money and for a homelab, I've been happy with my Tripplite UPS which was about half the cost. I got the expansion battery as well and the whole setup cost me less than $700

A trust less system also can aid in stymieing wire fraud in real estate transactions which is shockingly common. Today, someone doesn’t even have to have your private key to pretend to be you and steal your escrow funds - just a spoof email, good timing, and a paralegal that makes a mistake

Is it still aimed primarily at HDDs or does it have SSD utilities now? As I understand it, most of its wiping methods are/we’re geared toward HDDs

And the dev is rolling out features at a crazy pace. It feels like everytime I open the app it’s gotten significantly better

Seems to be much ado about nothing currently. Even in the release notes it clarified that this feature is not yet included and the quarantine list will be shared once ready (and will at first be mostly test domains). The blog seems to be wildly speculating on its intended use and possible impacts given the knowledge currently available

For Frigate especially, you are going to want to use multiple Coral TPUs to handle inferencing. I really can’t speak to the CPU requirements but I know a lot of people like using the Intel NUCs with mic tier processors.