Personally I’d say if you’re coming from a Mac, go Pop!_OS. If you’re coming from Windows, go Linux mint. Both have the option to run from a USB to test before installing.

You star wars fans certainly are a contentious bunch.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a town to run

No.

I’m a doctor, not a pool man!

“I’m Mr. Meeseeks”

Uncle Vanny was Vanilla Ice this whole time?!

I’m using a Jellyfin server with Symonium on android. It’s almost as good as plexamp, but sadly not available on other platforms. Symfonium will work with any media player that uses subsonic. My current jellyfin implementation is http with a VPN for external use.

Haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard it’s not all that.

I recently upgraded my homelab/self-hosting server from an old Dell T410 with dual X5650’s (2 - 6 core/12 thread CPU) and 24 GB ram to an old Dell Optiplex (7020 I think) with an i5-4590 (4 core/4 thread) and 32 GB ram. Its barely enough for a proxmox host with 5 VMs; but way faster than the old T410.

If you are offering some sort of self-hosting box, would it be bundled with some sort of software for someone to easily spin up whatever services they want?

Are you going to be able to make money at the $150 mark with all this hardware and configuration? If you are targeting people who are new to self-hosting, it will need to be a complete package (will need to have ram and storage installed).

Least favorite things? Hmmm…

Things that I want on my phone:

-headphone Jack

-user replaceable battery

-micro SD

-good camera

I know the specs would be terrible nowadays, but in terms of physical features and overall design, I think phone design peaked around the Samsung S5.

Dual Core ARM Cortex-A7 processor running at 1GHz

1GB DDR3 RAM memory

Doesn’t seem like you could self-host a whole lot with that…

I admire the thought of lowering the barrier to entry to start self-hosting for “normies”. Not sure where you are located, but where I am, this price point is not realistic even for used equipment, not including RAM or storage. I’m not really sure what value add you are bringing to the table that one wouldn’t get from just buying used hardware from an office surplus and if one is very inexperienced in self-hostong, looking into something like LTT is partnered with like Hexos.

Pepperridge farms remembers

I paid $450 USD for a first gen X1 Yoga back in 2019 on eBay. Best advice is to either be patient and check eBay regularly or make friends with somone in IT close to you and get them to let you know when a local business is doing an upgrade.