I won’t murder you if that’s what you’re asking. You can always monitor your egress traffic if you’re concerned. Ultimately, for home use it likely doesn’t matter.
Spying today takes the form of custom silicon branded as the original with extra transistors added before fabbing. Usually higher nm processes since they can’t fab on the latest nodes.
Knowing this, the chance of getting a counterfeit chip on a name brand switch is non-negligible as it is, and those parts come from China too.
The firmware might be a concern, but again, you need to be a valuable target.
I started with some firewall boxes and they’re still pumping years later as advertised.
I’m reminded of my friend coming back from China with suitcases of name brand clothing from the same factories the originals come from. All super cheap.
This stuff doesn’t necessarily cost a lot to produce, it’s just marked up to high hell around the world.
These mini pcs are a godsend: 12th Gen Intel N100 Firewall Computer Soft Router 4x 2.5G i226 i225 LAN NVMe Industrial Fanless Mini PC a.aliexpress.com/_mPBQflM
Cheap and more than powerful for opnsense and adguard on top (recommend over pi-hole).
Home assistant just run the new install script on proxmox to setup a vm. Copy your data over, usb pass through your radio hw and good to go.
Docker on lxc also works and you can probably swarm your containers over.
TP-Link Omada EAP line is rock solid for cheap managed access points. You can even run the controller in an lxc full local.
Affordable 48-port 2.5GbE Managed Switch Review ( youtu.be )
If you don’t mind Chinese vendors from AliExpress. It’s probably the best deal you’re going to find.
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