Not home specific, but maybe Vikunja? It lets you have projects, and tasks due within those projects. I think its more tailored toward teams working on projecgaprojects though.

Are you looking to obtain sheet music, or scan in your existing sheet music?

Indeed, other than being able to get the model running, having decent hardware is the next most important part.

3060 12gb is probably cheapest card to get, 3090 or other 24gb card if you can get it

I just bought one to use as a Magic Mirror dashboard. I can’t think of any other real use for them other than as dashboards.

I like the Volumio idea though. You can set up a Music Assistant container and get a whole home audio setup without having to run a bunch of speaker wire. At my old place I had an Apple TV airplay movie audio into the kitchen so you wouldn’t miss any dialogue while you ran into the kitchen.

Edit: Really specific hypothetical. If they’re powerful enough to run Kodi, and you have a travel homelab with Jellyfin/Plex, I wonder if they could serve as a travel streaming stick 🤔

I find Lenovo makes the best ones in terms of expandability. Full size PCI-e is crazy on their ThinkCentres

There’s a youtuber that goes by the name Wolfgang’s Channel. He’s basically got a series on making on making efficient NAS’s.

Basically, in terms of watts consumed, it’s better to not have an HBA card installed since they can prevent the system from preventing lower C states when idle. Thus having a board with more SATA ports is better since you won’t need an HBA card.

Here’s a link to known power efficient setups.

If you still want to go the add in route, I think the consensus is that SATA add in cards aren’t as reliable as HBA cards, but HBA cards are more power hungry. Here’s a link to HBA add in cards’ power consumption.

Also, if you have HDDs, 5400 rpm drives consume less power than 7200 rpm drives.

At a certain point you’re spending more money than you save in your power bill, but I can’t deny that its fun making your build as efficient as possible.

I tried both and for some reason Baikal just played nicer. I’m sure either is fine though.

Nextcloud was too bulky for my needs.

I don’t know what your - and your kid’s - situation is, but I worry pushing Linux onto someone would be counterproductive to getting them to like it.

I only use it because I genuinely like and appreciate it. I’d probably start by getting him interested in it. If he likes it enough then he’ll try and learn more by himself.

I recently got an LLM running locally on an AMD GPU. This was only possible on Linux. Depending on your son, something like that could be a cool way to get him interested.

How do you mean teach?

Just getting them to use it or teaching them terminal commands?