I have signal-cli set up on my home assistant and use that for notifications from home.assistant as well as uptime kuma, etc.

Just buy a prepaid sim in the Netherlands, Czechia, UK or Finland. Neither of them have any registration requirements and most prepaid cards from those countries have EU roaming included, even in the UK.

You don’t even need to add a payment method, it can be all made up info

You don’t need one, you just need to create an apple id on a computer if you don’t have any other apple devices. That computer can run Linux or any other OS.

Apple TV is the best choice currently imho.

It does not bombard you with ads and the tracking is not as bad as Google and Amazon.

What drove me (and my family) from KeePass to Bitwarden was the family sharing and survivor access.

Until KeePass supports these it’s not really up to par with Bitwarden.

Especially digital legacy management is a must have for a well rounded password manager.

What they are doing is way worse tban what you understood.

These QR codes will show on your Desktop PC and you will need an Android phone or an iOS device with a logged in Google QR code app to get past it.

I do live at 3 locations in 2 countries for work reasons and have a wireguard VPN server at my primary home that acts as a gateway for all my traffic, not only because of streaming but also because my bank locked me out for suspicious behavior before. The routers at locations 2 and 3 are sending all their traffic to my primary home.

No issues with this setup, I can only recommend it. I also have a centralized NAS this way and all my home assistant instances are interconnected.