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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel passed NUC baton to ASUS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I known this us a few days old but just wanted to chime in. I’ve been enjoying the “1 liter/mini pc” trend in home lab/server lately. I got myself a couple of hp elitedesk mini 600 g4’s for $120 each on ebay, they have an 8th gen intel i5 and support quicksync. If you’re patient you can find similar mini pcs for around the $100 price range, they’re generally cheaper than nuc or nuc clones and since they’re big name brands (hp, lenovo, Dell, etc all have a version of them) you can find parts for them easily on the used market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you all track your car maintenance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use Google keep to note when I do maintenance and I tag it as vehicle maintenance. If I need to know when I rotated the tires I can just look through everything in that tag to see. For things that I want to keep a receipt record of I scan the receipt and put it in a folder for the vehicle labeled something like “oil change engine air filter 34k miles” and save it on my nas(would work with drive/dropbox/one drive too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware help! Looking to upgrade my home server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For home lab/hosting you can get really good performance out of used/refurbished mini pcs, look for something like hp mini 400 g4. They can be found for around $100 to $150 on ebay. They generally fit a 2.5 inch ssd drive as well as 1 or sometimes two m.2 ssd drives. I find that intel nucs are pretty expensive compared to the specs, like you’re paying a premium for the brand and form factor since it’s a bit of a niche market. These mini pc’s are more business office oriented and are way more accessible at a lower price.