I have one of those at home… I set up a samba server to store my music library and mounted it on my raspberry pi to run a navidrome server

Wireguard is the way to go. I like using wg-easy to use wireguard because its easy to set up in a docker container.

Yeah, I remember reading headlines like this in Linux websites back in 2014…

I used to use puppy in my ancient laptop. Loved it

Sometimes I get this error you mentioned but I’m usually driving and can’t see what track triggers this behavior but I guess this has something to do with the song format or codec. I usually just hit next and play to keep listening to my songs …

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I had some issues with my old kazaa era mp3s and figured it was sometimes easier to just download them again using soulseek…Now I have better formats and quality along with tagged files. Then I use navidrome to serve my music

I use navidrome + tempo and I’m happy with them…sometimes I feel like the shuffle function is not that great…I get some tracks way more often than others but then I just press next…

As everyone have said, it depends on what you want to have in your server. I started with an old lenovo I bought in mercado livre for 200 BRL. It was a DDR2 PC with 4Gb ram. I bought an ssd and installed Debian. Used for years. After that I tried to build a DDR3 PC. Made it with 800 BRL and it’s decent to run my docker containers like an arr stack, nextcloud, VPN, reverse proxy and vaultwarden.

Wait, can I share a printer on my network that does not have a network card?!

Sober is pretty decent nowadays. I had it installed for my daughter last week and she’s been playing roblox with no issues besides my old machine ram limitations.

Cool!

XFCE. It’s lightweight, easy to tweak and looks great. I run it on my 6 y.o. potato laptop