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Would you recommend to use a RPi 5 or a second hand Lenovo mini pc (i3 6100t, 8gb ram) or something else?

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[โ€“] MTZ@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it going to be a general purpose file server? A media server through jellyfin, etc.? If a media server, do you need to transcode?

[โ€“] Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

NAS, perhaps apps like vaultwarden, nextcloud, immich, maybe grafana for sensors... I am not 100% sure as this would be the first.