Depends what you want to do. I have installed Linux for some people and they were perfectly happy with it and never touched the command line. While for me barely a day goes by using Linux that I don’t touch the command line for something.

I would get a Nokia flip phone but they cost a bit. Cheaper to get something someone is throwing out

I don’t have any

Don’t post trump positive stuff at all. Just post cat videos of you want to make a fake account and add content to it

Dragged out and gaddafied

Can the native Americans just kill the leader of the colonizing force?

2TB? How!

Currently sat on 5GB across 920 files

I like using rygel currently, just run it by command line and media folders are available over the network. Any device with VLC can see it on the network and play.

I have been using rygel. I don’t need anything fancy, dump a few media folders onto any VLC player on the LAN.

60w is like £120 a year, these costs add up to the point that low spec servers pretty much always cost more in energy than hardware. Of course it also depends on where you live and your energy rates.

You could buy a 20 year old server that is going to use 800w, or you could buy a mini PC that is probably more powerful and uses like 10-20w.

Then again, I used to live somewhere that energy was included in the rent so short of starting a bitcoin farm usage wouldn’t really get noticed too much. In that case it would make sense to just go cheap hardware.

Your energy is clearly a lot cheaper than mine then.

Oh I am not saying specifically get a raspberry pi, personally looking at a bee-link N150 mini PC. It isn’t even that much more expensive than the 16GB raspberry pi and as its x86 I can just run normal debian installs in proxmox.

Power consumption is a massive reason to really not do that. Its cheap for a reason, its takes a shitload of power to be shit and you will pay more in energy than you save in hardware unless its only powered on for short periods of time - a server typically isn’t.

This is actually something that applies to cheap products too. Was in Asda a little while ago and saw 2 LED bulbs with the same lumen rating. Cheaper one used 3w more and you only saved £1. Running it for 8 hours a day for a year would cost double that saving in electricity. For a server you are looking at almost £2 per watt each year. Does that ewaste look so good to you now?

Some things are absolutely worth getting second hand, but you really should be careful considering the power cost as well.

Quick edit: If you don’t need it running 24/7, consider something like AWS too. I love selfhosting but if its not running much it might be cheaper to not bother buying hardware.

Been very tempted to get a beelink mini PC, N150 doesn’t cost much and could stick proxmox and Debian VMs on it

If I ever have a kid they will be the one that has friends over for Minecraft LAN parties.

My use of windows died when my XP install died.

I used to run servers a decade ago and open was fine. Never had a random join. Crazy to think bots are trying random IPs now, probably would whitelist in that case

I am sometimes surprised to find new things VLC can do, it’s awesome.

Just use Libre office. If you are doing anything bigger than that start a SQL server instead

Thought this was about the UK reform party at first, still works