In this regard: here is a comparison of all the Lenovo tinys: https://github.com/a-little-wifi/TinySecrets

Zigbee2mqtt can do scenes, no problem.

The only thing you miss is the hue app.

But you can buy a 10-20€ zigbee stick and connect them directly to home assistant. No hue bridge or account required.

Do you want the data to be only stored once or twice? Or would it be an option to sync everything? This would be the easiest. Just set up 3 individual servers, set up syncthing between them, done.

It would mean that all server need enough storage though.

Matter itself is just the protocol, not the wireless standard. There are lots of matter over WiFi devices, for those you don’t need this additional adapter, as they will connect to your WiFi router.

Thread is a wireless standard which is almost like zigbee, that is why there are some adapters that support both.

But thread border routers are also a thing in lots of devices. For example if you have an Apple TV, this can be used as a gateway with home assistant without additional hardware.

Matter is not really big yet.

For zigbee adapters, take a look here: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/

He seems to be a hardware guy. So maybe he is more technology focused than Tim.

Try to somehow fix it in place, shim it for example. See if that works for now. When you got the printer printing at least a little, print a replacement part.

+1 for fiber. Also because there are really thin fiber cables available (like <1mm in diameter) and with a bidirectional transceiver you can literally run a cable in the corner of two walls and hide it with just some acrylic compound and paint.

There is also POE over two unshielded copper wires.

If you lose connection, I would imagine that the connection to these servers would not be established and therefore no authentication information would be send, no?

I bought a HPE microserver gen10 plus and installed unraid on it, works perfectly. Truenas would also be an option.

It has 4 drive bays, 4 1 gig Ethernet ports and 1 pciex16

I actually bought unraid before it became a subscription. And I must say, i really like it.

I am currently looking into Proxmox to build a small cluster to prevent critical services from becoming unavailable whenever I do stupid things… but… compared to unraid the learning curve and ease of use is much more brutal.

Life has worse graphics than GTA V?

It will be a game changer when these things come down in price, like 1-200€. Not 500-1k like they are now

Just buy two!

War is Never the solution

The world is not black and white. More people buying the base model does not mean everyone does. It doesn’t even mean that less people are buying the pro model.

Depends. The only thing more expensive would be the screen. But everything else is less crammed, thus easier to design and integrate. Although it does not have to have an impact on price

Bigger phones are easier to build.