In principle yes, of course, but I think we all know that Rubio is using this exact justification as a smoke screen to lay the groundwork of sowing doubt to manufacture a false "controversy" come election time. He's also being just vague enough that he can play both sides, too, depending on which option he finds most politically beneficial. I'm glad to have people scrutinize our electoral process, but not when they start from a predetermined conclusion.

Yes, it has a local webui by default. You don't have to connect it to their cloud, though I do because it's free and lets me get notifications if something goes offline.

Netdata for me, it reports stats and metrics for VMs and containers too, automatically, and it's easy to install in Proxmox.

My gripe with NC has always been that keeping it up to date is a pain. I'm in the process of migrating my install from a normal install in a TrueNAS jail to the containerized version in the Linux version of TrueNAS and that too is a struggle. I'm hoping that the containerized version will be easier to keep up to date, as that seemed to go wrong constantly.

I tried to make Grocy work as a kitchen inventory and shopping tool too but damn, it tries to do way too much detail. I'm sure there are people with enough discipline that it appeals to, but I really felt like it was way too particular and entering/tracking items across areas seemed like overkill. Its whole system seems unintuitive to me and I could never get to the point where it seemed natural, so I gave up quickly despite really wanting it to work.

Correct, the discovery process where you add them doesn't actually involve the addon and works fine without it. The addon is just a wrapper for the standalone ESPhome web UI. It's also not the only way to author and flash a config to a device, you can do it from any computer and on the command line.

It's not needed, and you can run it separately as well.

Muscle wizard, go go go.

Fabuloso is real cleaner, parent comment is just saying it looks tasty.

I used both, I ended up settling on searxng because Whoogle seemed to be unable to retain my settings. Might be something with my cookie configuration, but searxng has no problem remembering my preferences.