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I set up this thin client computer in my fathers basement today. It cost $35 used on ebay, is fanless at 10W TDP, and has 8GB of RAM.
@forestjohnson My weird rationale for chosing EOL'd ChromeOS devices is that Google publishes when they get EOL'd so I can just check that calendar against whatever devices are best supported by the custom firmware (seabios/coreboot) builds and get a consistent supply of devices that are otherwise destined to become unsupported e-waste.
@forestjohnson I bought a one of those exact devices to play with along with a Chromebox CN62 (EOL'd June 2021)
So far very comfy, very quiet, and very Linux friendly machines (the Chromeboxes require some firmware level liberation, but https://mrchromebox.tech has some very helpful guides and a GitHub account full of scripts https://github.com/MrChromebox/scripts)