@audricd @salarua I second this. If you're starting, an unused computer (laptop, desktop, raspberry pi or other single board computer, whatever) you already have is perfect. Or an old computer a friend gives you, or eventually a cheap second hand computer.
You can do A LOT with very little computing resources
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@poVoq @sexy_peach this a pretty great idea. I wonder if it's possible to do the waking up part in a more automatic way. As described, there's a webpage running on a pi from which you press a button to wake up the server. Would be even cooler if incoming requests went through the pi and automatically wake up the server if needed
@HiddenLayer5 OK, thanks. Feedback from personal experiences like that is immensely valuable. I'll see what's on the secondhand market in my area
@HiddenLayer5 OK thanks for the names. What is hardware video decoding support in Linux like for these machines? I had read somewhere that hw decoding support of most Intel chips was pretty good
@HiddenLayer5 @poVoq those odroid PCs also have removable RAM and 2 SATA ports. What models exactly were you alluding to?
@Conman_Signor @JohnLikesComputers so you want to be able to move files to and from the server without unplugging the hard drive and plugging it into another machine?
If yes, that's entirely possible, what operating system are you running on the server?