it is now official: I bought a refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini to be my home server. got a nice xmas deal with a portuguese shop specialized in refurbs. but before I start playing with it I will make some changes:
- it comes with 8GB of RAM, but I will buy a 16G card as well, so I might end up with 12G or 24G;
- it comes with a 256GB 2.5" SATA SSD, but I am thinking of selling that and operating with only a 1TB M.2 NVME SSD;
- it comes with no WiFi, so I'm getting an Intel AX211 card, since I have a WiFi6 router and can't do an Ethernet connection at the moment.

I've also been researching on top of what I'm gonna run my server. for now I think I won't do YUNOHOST and go with Docker. but even then I have choices to make this whole thing easier: Portainer, CapRover, Umbrel, Tipi are the ones I already read about. any thoughts on that, fellow fedizens?

I wanna thank @joby @millihertz @steven for showing me the wondrous world of refurbished miniPCs/thin clients. ​

the adventure continues...

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