Please forgive the annoying asking for info post

I have 100Gb of stuff on Google drive and I want to move it in house, I guess via Nextcloud? At the same time I want to try things like self hosting Notesnook and a few other things like ad blocking the home network etc

I was going to try starting with a raspberry pi 5 with 8Gb of ram and an SSD and some form of Linux obvs but in my limited reading I’ve seen that’s very not recommended for Nextcloud.

Key things are low power usage/quiet, I’m not THAT fussed about download speed to other devices but keen to avoid as much lock in as possible. Budget around £200-300 to start with.

I’ve seen recommendations for thin clients, kinda like the idea of a NUC but they’re pricy for the form factor. Having it be small would be a plus but I do have an old windows 8 machine from 2013 in the cupboard in an ATX case but the power supply draw feels like it would be excessive

Hints appreciated or tell me which community to go check, thanks in advance

EDIT: Thanks for all the hints!

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Why CUDA? I don’t see any services listed that would benefit at all from a GPU, and even if they later spun up a Jellyfin or similar that can always be mapped to the integrated GPU.

    Better to start with something cheap and imperfect to learn what you actually need then upgrade from there

    • bizarroland@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I threw it in as a gimme or as a backup if they go AMD.

      My real intent is to aim for the seventh gen intel processor or higher, as the intel quicksync encoders are better on the seventh generation than they are in the sixth gen.

      That can help with encryption of files and decoding encrypted files for something like an opnsense box or wireguard.

      And who knows, they might want to play around with some local AI stuff or jellyfin in the future.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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        51 minutes ago

        That’s fair, and if you’re buying and have the choice, getting 7th gen or newer would be absolutely ideal

        I think suggesting a system with a GPU before there’s a need for a GPU (especially when one could be added later) is a bit over the top though. Especially since local AI is kinda niche within homelabbers and media en/decoding can be done on the iGPU (and realistically for Jellyfin everything should ideally be direct-play since so much quality is lost with the real-time transcoding, so it shouldn’t be hit too hard for what transcoding does occur

        Of course I say this all with my home server running off a 4th gen i5 and Jellyfin configured for GPU accelerated transcode on the iGPU. I’m sure it would be better on a better CPU and GPU but meh