I would love to do that, but am scared of my house getting flooded/catching fire/getting tornado-ed/multitude of other things. Also, the electricity sometimes doesn’t work, especially now in winter and I need 100% uptime for remote data access

Pipewire and alsa are completely different things. Pipewire uses pulse/jack which then use alsa, or am I missing something?

Checkout the Wayback project on fdo

Which video, could you link it here?

Made me laugh

Asahi linux does this, you run a script and it installs. No USB needed. That’s on apple silicon hardware though.