I may try Thunderbird again. Only thing I do not like about the screenshots is the far left toolbar, but I will still check it out.

I will argue from experience that Homeassistant runs pretty damn good on a pi using an SSD. They have an image specifically for HA as well.

All the tiny micro server content is great from sth.

So if I am understanding this correctly VLAN is 2 separate LANs that are unable to communicate and network bridge is used to communicate VLAN 1 and VLAN 2. And to keep work separate from play you can use VLAN without a network bridge to keep things secure? Does that make sense.