I don't trust Time Machine any more. Years ago I wrote some shell scripts that help me mostly automate my complete system setup (with brew and friends). From time to time, I wipe my entire system and restore it with these scripts. Sometimes I have to adjust them, but mostly, they work without changes.

For my data backups, I use restic. Big advantage is, that I can read my backups even when I don't have a macOS system present (e.g. my only macOS system had a hardware issue and my Time Machine Backup was pretty much useless until I got a new one).

I know, this solution is not for everybody, but Time Machine corrupted my backups more than 5 times now and it feels so slow compared to restic, that I don't even think about retrying it after a new macOS release any more - even if my solution is a bit more work to do.

From a hacking perspective, DJI previously seemed to be pretty nice with SDKs etc allowing you to get the video feed, send controls to the drone etc. But from what I can see they stopped supporting this for most (commercial) drones from Mavic 3 and onwards... Anybody know otherwise?

What I'd want is to be able to remote control it from any other device, it doesn't really matter if it's an Android/iOS app or running on linux/windows.

This general concept is very similar to Apple’s Bonjour based “Sleep Proxy” service. Basically, if you have an Apple TV or something similar it will automatically wake up a sleeping device when someone requests its services. SSH or media sharing for example. While a device is sleeping the proxy will keep advertising its services via Bonjour. Low power always-on Apple devices are sleep proxies by default but you can turn any Mac into a Sleep Proxy by passing a flag to mDNSResponder.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy