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Start here with what kind of one you like to find some options

https://1lumen.com/flashlight-guide/

I use Manjaro for nearly all of my pi’s, mostly because it is arch based and supports newer libraries.^___^

I ended up doing a similar thing for the same reasons, too many things ignoring my local dns. I ended up creating a subdomain for my house where all the A records had internal ips. I gave out fixed leases to the things with names though instead of dynamic dns updates.