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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda depends. I have one that makes an excellent Plex server with an external USB drive for the media. It's ancient, got it for nothing from an school that was going to throw it out, it's got Intel QuickSync so it transcodes media in hardware. I even got the 2TB USB drive for nothing, friend didn't need it any more and was going to throw it out, now it serves him media with the Plex server I built. Did the same with another Chromebook for Pi Hole. Now thinking about a slightly beefier one for Home Assistant. Might set up a Lemmy instance on another one, just for the fuck of it.