Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.

Super shitty thing to do to anyone.

Everyone else has described the complications that a Mac mini would have. So why not consider something else? Lenovo, HP, and Dell make 1l ultra small form factor PCs and they’re pretty cheap on eBay. They’re also low power. Search for Tiny Mini Micro to find information.

I have three Lenovo Thinkcentre machines - two with 32gb RAM and one with 64gb RAM - running my Proxmox VE cluster. Highly recommend using those small machines instead of a Mac mini.

To be honest, I do not see a motorcycle that’s limited to 45mph doing well in the US. For people living in cities where the speed might be slower, an ebike may make more sense.

But once you start getting away from city centers traffic gets faster. Standard thoroughfares are 45mph here and people regularly speed.

Smartphones have one major benefit - you basically always have your phone with you. Even if the games are crappy, you always have the option to play. Emulation on Android also opens you up to decades of games to play.

Huh, TIL. It’s still working just fine, so I’ll keep using it. Guess there won’t be any updates though.

There’s a Linux install of Teams. I’ve never tried it on Debian but it works fine in Ubuntu. Use it for work every day.

Just out of curiosity, what drive configuration are you running?

Risking sounding like a broken record, I always suggest Tiny/Mini/Micro 1L form factor office PCs. Lenovo, Dell, and HP all create ultra small office PCs that make great low power servers. A Pi will use 5-9w at idle, while these PCs will use 11-13w idle. They also use more standard components such as NVME drives, 2.5" drives, and replaceable RAM. Easy to find under $100 USD used, I’m sure you can find them under 100 euro.

In the US at least, it’s the other way around. The Ford Ranger is 100% Ford, while Mazda actually rebadged the Ford Ranger as the B series for the US market.

Kei trucks can put the sides of the bed down, leaving a completely flat cargo surface. Depending on the model, the bed is 4-6ft long and 3.5-4.5ft wide with the sides up.

Part of the point is that a kei truck can do a good chunk of small utility trips without being gigantic or bad on gas.

It’s sad to say, but that generation of Ford Ranger is way smaller than trucks from the last decade.

I don’t really have any automated manga download processes. I use Neko on my phone and tablet to download new chapters from Mangadex automatically. My manga library in Kavita is all completed series that I grab via torrents.

I run Kavita on my TrueNAS Scale setup. I can’t really recommend it, but there’s not a lot of similar manga/comic self hosting servers out there.

It doesn’t have a feature to auto download manga though. It also won’t organize manga based on folder structure - it only goes by file name, which annoys me to no end since I have my library organized for use with Tachiyomi on my phone/tablet.

Look up 1L mini PCs - Dell, Lenovo, and HP have similar one liter mini PCs that would’ve been used as a lightweight frontend in offices. They are easy to find on eBay and can be pretty cheap.

For example, my lab at home consists of three Lenovo Thinkcentre tiny machines. I bought them off eBay for $60-80 USD. They each came with a 500gb HDD and 8gb RAM. I have since upgraded them all to a 500gb NVME, 500gb SSD (they have a 2.5" drive bay), and 32gb of RAM. They run as a Proxmox VE cluster.

I think I might have $500 USD into the entire setup, including my 10" wide rack enclosure.

Just some off the top of my head.

1. Don’t use Google, Microsoft, or any other major company (or subsidiaries) for email.
2. Use a privacy-focused browser (aka not Chrome).
3. Don’t sign up for every rewards program or app, they all harvest data.

I see this a lot while on my bike. I simply behave as if anyone in a car cannot be trusted to follow any rules of the road or care about my safety.

Oh, yes, SSH should be enough. I think I assumed a need for a GUI since you mentioned it had a GPU.

Turn on SSH (text) and VNC (GUI, like Windows RDP) on L2, place wherever you want. Access it remotely to run whatever. Install and use samba to create a file share for your videos and music. Whenever you want to host a website, install apache or nginx as the host software.

If/when you use it to host a website, make sure to harden the security on it. Block SSH and VNC through your router firewall completely so the server cannot be accessed from outside. Block SSH for the root user. Install something like fail2ban to prevent anyone who manages to reach the server from trying passwords endlessly.

Just a quick list.

• Apple actively makes device designs more difficult to repair. Everything is either glued or soldered together.
• They purposely make it more difficult to get tools and parts. Some tools are proprietary.
• Performance per dollar is terrible. The better, slightly more repairable machines cost a ton of money. Spend the same amount of money on a regular PC and you would have a beast of a machine.
• Apple sues and/or attacks anyone who tries to help people repair their devices.
• They purposely push out OS changes that make older devices less usable.

That's not even including the treatment of employees or condition of the factories where Apple devices are built. I don't know as much about that. But I can definitely comment on the above after managing iPads and Macbooks in a corporate environment.