It’s Sunday somewhere already so why wait?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I’ll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn’t want to forget the post again.
IMO you should stick with a local device store only. If you’re worried about the state getting hold of the data, having any backups is gonna be a liability.