Trade-offs: Single System VM Isolation vs Dedicated Home Assistant Hardware

The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.

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• Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal
• HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293
• HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community
• Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community
• Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️
• Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop
• Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer
• Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150
• Minisforum MS-01 Work Station
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
• Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki
• home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05
• Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!
• Pick: Lenspect
• Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.