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Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 5 days ago
If you can live without the dedicated GPU for the media center, you can get an Intel CPU instead, which have QuickSync for media transcoding. It will use a fraction of the power a dedicated GPU does with the same workload.
That’s likely the place you can gain most power effeciency.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
+1
I’m running media/back up server for 4 households on a single n100 mini pc and a couple USB drives. It’s a “good enough”, low cost, high wife acceptance factor entry point into self-hosting. It’ll happily age into a firewall if I want to build a dedicated box later on.
It’s revealing what I do/don’t need vs what I want. It’s teaching me what people use, what they don’t where I might want to go in the future.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 5 days ago
Same here. My N100 box is running multiple websites/blogs, nextcloud, jellyfin, home assistant and a bunch of other small things.