I get the appeal of a lightweight device but i personally like a little weight as long as it is heavy because it _b … I just woke up and realized I fell asleep typing my comment. I literally bored myself to sleep.

Linux has come a long way though and it’s basically turn key for some distros. Even with flatpak or system catalogs built into the gui.

This is where the Linux and self hosting people chime in.

I was about to say that surely it’s not just 1 person they are talking about. Then I read, "Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

WTF

That’s just about all I need. Vpn + privacy browser is as much effort as I’m willing to put in. Beyond that it gets really frustrating.

Pouring resources into it… Doesn’t almost every other os/distro have this option?

eBay helps too. I picked up 16gb of ddr4 ram for someone the other day for $40 and got myself a cpu cooler for my build for $60 less than brand new. It was just open box so basically new. Takes patience but there are still deals to be found out there.

I just built an am4 machine from mostly old parts I had kicking around. Was happy I went a little to crazy a few years ago. No way I’d of been able to do it with prices now

To be fair though… I came out to my old car without digital nonsense yesterday and it didn’t start either.

Not quite as compact but I think you can r pi a little media box pretty easily.

What did you end up going with?