See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics

Not a fan of metal fires at home either, however rare they are in practice. Solid state/sodium ion would definitely help.

Look into hyperconverged, e.g. Proxmox with a local zfs pool.

My own tamper-proof server in a locked cage. There are no noncompliant jurisdictions.

I use Graphene OS and mostly/exclusively only open source applications.

The disadvantage is that you still lose power when the grid goes down, even if you have storage. Unless you run parallel circuits, and your system is island/black start capable.