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There’s a few boards that bridge the gap between pi and a pc for media servers and small NAS uses. Look at Asus Tinker board, Odroid, Udoo Bolt, Orange Pi, Rockpro64, BeagleBone

Yeah the celeron and pentium models are amazing low power machines to run Home Assistant on. Mine is running half a dozen other docker addons including frigate to do ai object detection (offloading most of the heavy lifting to a Google coral chip plugged into usb)

Being the default industry standard meant drivers were never a hassle

I do classes, 1hr of body combat to go hard and then it’s done. The music, instructors and feeding off the energy of the ppl around you make it enjoyable.