Untrusted devices should really be on their own VLAN. You will have much better control over them and their ability to reach out to the net, or gather info on your network and other devices. Some IoT devices have their DNS hardcoded, so they will ignore your Pihole anyway - you will need to redirect the DNS with outbound NAT to combat this.

I don’t have one myself, but several of the guys on YouTube use them. See “The Home Automation Guy” or “Smart Home Solver“. I can’t remember the brand they use.

If you’re not using a VPN, it’s possible your ISP is throttling your connection when it sees p2p traffic. Just another thing to look into.

Before you move to Linux, have you had a look at OpenCore Legacy Patcher? It will allow you to install newer versions of MacOS on your unsupported MBP. Mr Macintosh’s channel on YouTube is a good resource for this.

Have you considered other approaches, such as Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnels? I think you’re complicating things.

I have some SmartThings plugs that work similarly, I think they have a UK version.

TubeArchivist sounds like a better fit for that.

You can use lists in Readarr. Set up a Goodreads account, link Readarr to a list in Goodreads. Any books in the list will automatically be added to Readarr.

Jim’s Garage on YT, he recently did a video about running Docker in an LXC. I think you’ll find the info you need there. It can be done, but if you’re new to Docker and/or LXCs, it adds an additional layer of complexity you will have to deal with for every container/stack you deploy.

Proxmox. Currently considering upgrading from a single node to a 3 node Cluster for Ceph.

Dark mode?

I’ve had similar experiences with FF and HA. I tried everything that has been suggested to you and kept having problems. In the end I installed Brave just for HA. I still use FF for everything else.

You can head over to the ArchiveTeam Warrior site for more info. You can set up a Warrior instance in Docker and assign it to the Reddit archive project.