You don’t have classified documents, but you probably use bank in your browser running as your user. Maybe you use local mail program to send emails, also running as your user. A simple malware could add emails to be send asking your family to send you some money through online service.

And that’s easily done because the only isolation layer is user and group.

Are you saying that AI slop is bad in those (counts) 4 removed lines of code?

Downsizing. If you don’t need to run or keep stuff, then you don’t need so many servers and storage. You may run stuff on cheap mini-pcs.

Sleep: In my experience sleep sucks, I’ve spent long hours planning around sleep in homelab, like: when do I restart, do updates, when do I upload backups. I have Pi and at some point I realised some actions on Pi need my sleeping NAS… so I dropped all the sleep and now it works 24/7.