While I use Vanadium, it doesn’t support the basic Firefox plugins.

Supports Linux apps poorly.

Their ChromeOS tablets suck as well. The only reason for me to buy Google hardware is to put GrapheneOS on it.

I’ve made a support request and chose the payout version rather than a free walk-in repair for my 7a. I will be contacted by an agent within three weeks. Probably have to revert to Google stock if I have to send it in.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware. Need to check my device.

GrapheneOS is the most secure mobile OS and your model is not affected. I’ve got a 7a myself.

Great writeup.

How much is a kWh in your parts? Noise, ambient temperature? You can buy very decent refurbished Lenovo tiny PCs with some 16 GB RAM and 6 cores and half a TB SSD which will run Proxmox and are low power and noise. You can go multi-node Proxmox later if you want to expand. k8s and related are also an option.

DIY few kWp solar payback is about 2 years.

In Germany consumer power is something like 0.4 EUR/kWh, so economics of running power-hungry hardware might be different. Solar PV might change the equation once again.