Chest freezers are exceptionally energy efficient. It’s not a very good comparison.
Lineage is built directly from AOSP images, so this makes perfect sense.
It’s an android system component. You allowing unattended updates, or clicking “update” is the consensent.
Stop being disingenuous.
As someone who’s set up and managed critical business applications I would say that it’s perfectly fine to host your own provided you have decent hardware that’s capable of doing what you need and as a dedicated business line to provide connection.
If you try to run mission critical business applications on a home internet connection you’re going to have a really bad fucking time. But hosting business critical applications on appropriate hardware and a 1Gb/s business connection with an SLA is going to meet 95-98%% of all business applications.
If something like that sounds expensive or too difficult to do then it’s too expensive or too difficult for you to host yourself. Just go with a provider and sidestep self-host.