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Had several old PCs over the years from relatives, but either gave them to other people or threw them to the trash because I didn't see the usefulness back then...

Right now all I have is my PC (which I guess I could put VMs on), and maybe a few phones (maybe just because they kinda are there like backup phones), which I couldn't find how to root, if these are of any use with unrooted Termux.

Do you have any advice about it? Should I start with my PC with VMs? An unrooted phone with Termux? Try to look somewhere that is gonna get rid of PCs or something? If so, where?

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Get yourself a tiny computer like this one and go to town. This is actually what my whole "homelab" runs on. lol. I have my own Nvidrome, audiobookshelf, jellyfin, invidious, pihole, own DNS with unbound and some more, all running on this little thing. It runs so well. I don't ever have issues.