The n100 and n200 have quite low TDP values for much better performance than a Pi.

As a long-time user, not at all simple.

Reading a post on the LE forum it sounds like smallstep might be closer to what I need.

Is this only for public facing services then? I have little desire to expose my services except through tailscale or something like that.

Any recommended “quick start” guides for LetsEncrypt? I get hung up trying to actually understand the process but I should just nut up and get it done.

Ah, so it’s not [necessarily] a direct transfer between peers.

Croc has worked nicely for me when I had to transfer very large files. I’ll check out Korra next time if “async” means it will start transferring once the first file is hashed. That always annoyed me about Croc and I’d manually break my transfers into chunks because I didn’t want to wait 10min before even one file was transferred.

OpenMediaVault

Good OOTB customizations, works on Pi, and easy to extend with plugins (Docker/Portainer is pretty much all I needed).

I don’t see that as a big downside. I’ve had hard drives wear out but memory, CPU, mobo and such can easily last 10 yrs. At that point simply trying to plug in a new CPU or RAM is leaving a lot of modern advancement on the table.

Seems decent but depends on your usage. Memory could be a bit excessive unless you’ll actually have a lot of simultaneous users. I’d also look into the features of the integrated graphics card. If you’re doing some streaming a low cost GPU might give you better options for hardware decoding/encoding.

Used processors are quite reasonable on eBay. I got one with a lower TDP and it actually benchmarked higher than my previous CPU (came with my used Dell workstation).

https://github.com/tiny-pilot/tinypilot

I know some are vehemently against the use of .local for a home network. It would be nice to be able to set a custom TLD like .home or .lan (these don’t have any special meaning or usage as of now).

Not to hijack but I’ve been wanting something similar for personal tasks but using SCRUM. I figure I might be more motivated seeing how many “points” I could finish in a week vs a raw number of tasks.