Try it and find out. Hobbies are about doing something you enjoy, not being good at something. No one can tell you if you like something (as much as that bothers marketers).

If you already have a computer there is literally $0 startup cost.

I guess I don’t see how tying the radio to a PoE microcontroller improves your resilience. Just changes the critical system.

TOU/TORS I think they call them now days.

Yeah.

No. I refuse to rank my children as well.

Grandpa worked in a power station back in the days of yore.

Left the generator they were working on as he needed a tool. While he was gone an arc flash deleted his co-worker.

I got tired of compiling the kernel taking a day on my Pentium pc. So I got a pile of 486s the uni was throwing out, built a Beowulf cluster out of them and soon I was able to compile the kernel in two and half days.

I upvoted you but I wasn’t happy about it.