Renting a gas powered vehicle could be an option for the two times a year needed.

I bought a PHEV back in June (Ford Escape), have driven 1500 miles since and have yet to add any gas. For most daily trips the battery gets me there and back without using any gas. I love it and am excited for full EV for my next vehicle.

Check out OpenRGB to see if it meets your lighting needs. I use it with Corsair Commander Pro, keyboard, mousepad, RAM, QL fans and the ASUS RGB header and attached lighting. It’s been working great on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for me.

I’ll bring the blow pops, who’s got the Vicks?

I think you could download the ISO for tumbleweed on your host system, mount it within your VM, and add it as a local repository through YaST?

Bitwarden for hosting your own password manager.

Not sure if you have any smart home devices, homeassistant is another great self host program