I would be interested to hear specific recommendations, from your own personal experience, for a computer to act as a low-powered server:
* relatively small form factor
* low power consumption
* arm64
* runs Linux nicely (i.e. all hardware supported)
* available to buy new in the UK, but without needing an account manager / any sort of nonsense like that
* has ongoing firmware updates from the manufacturer, via fwupd
It doesn't need more than 16GB of RAM, nor a beefy processor.
Thank you!
Neil Brown
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