Why can't you just have a long lived internally signed cert on your archaic apps and LE at the edge on a modern proxy? It's easy enough to have the proxy trust the internal cert and connect to your backend service that shouldn't know the difference if there's a proxy or not.
You could try a path unit watching the cert directory (there are caveats around watching the symlinks directly) or most acme implementations have post renewal hooks you can use which would be more reliable.
I'm not from the US, but my understanding is that the democratic party only want one thing? Namely the continuation of subsidies for health care for the less fortunate (not undocumented immigrants).
Given the US is the only first world nation without Universal Health Care, that doesn't sound like "a bunch of shit" to me.
I have smart plugs from Innr, Samsung, Aqara (I think) and have never experienced the problem you're speaking of. Mine are all ZigBee -- not sure what yours are.
That said, I just got a bunch of Shelly EM Mini G4 and put them in some PowerPoints and they work great.
If you don't mind some basic wiring they're easy to set up.
If you need something running 24/7 then on-prem may work out cheaper for you. Keep in mind you need a team of server monkeys to keep that running, and your company's security certifications will come nowhere near that of a major cloud provider.
Cloud is good for elastic workloads. And you can save money that way if you're set up for it. A simple lift and shift will always be more expensive. But doing things like moving build tasks to spot instances and auto scaling capacity in peak periods is a huge win. No need to over provision your DC and no need to upgrade your hardware -- generally AWS releases new products at roughly the same price as old but with increased performance. You get upgrades "for free"* with no capex.
Again I'm not saying that your circumstance means that cloud isn't more expensive. But there are medium term benefits.
AWS refused to offer hybrid as an option for years. They've changed their tune in the past 5 or so. No reason not to take advantage and do what mix makes sense for you.
I'm legitimately curious to understand more (not challenging your assertions). They offer hosted Jira/Confluence and probably other stuff no-one cares about.
I get your point but my gaming PC is specifically for gaming. If I could make it "dumber" with a more console-like experience that'd be a win for me.
For productivity I have a MacBook that I'm quite fond of along with a nice desk and docking setup if that's what I feel like. That isn't going away.