Well, me too. But frankly OpenIAM (24GB of RAM as a requirement) Keycloak, Authelia do too much, require too much and aren't suitable at all for SBCs and small scale stuff.
Edit: This is targeted at people that run nginx as a standalone server or proxy.
Yeah, I was reading about PostCSS the other day, but still too lazy to change my environment. To be fair I only need the nesting polyfill and some kind of minifier, the rest I can live with native stuff.
Yeah CSS is now decent. The only problem is that the nesting is not very well supported yet. It’s something like only browsers > 2023 and let’s be realistic people run old machines.
Get them as big as possible (wallet allows to), because you'll get quickly annoyed at having multiple smaller drives. You'll have to deal with more space, more cables, more power, more sata expansion, more heat etc.
Note that the adapter on the link does not actually use the USB protocol. It's still PCIe sent over a USB 3.0 cable that is good enough for the job. But not actually USB, there are no signal / protocol conversions happening.
This is a decent setup if you want to leave the Mini PC intact, with the case and all because it allows you to route the PCIe to outside of the machine using a somewhat solid cable that you can run through a small hole OR the optional port slot (VGA on this machine):
The VGA card can be removed so you have a big hole to pass the "USB" cable through.
There are A LOT of ways to convert the M2/NVME slots into SATA ports, some you can get hundreds of hard drives there if you need.
In fact, I already have a mini PC (an MSI Cubi 2 with an i3-7100) that I sometimes use. I’m sure it’s fairly power-efficient, but again, it only has room for one 2.5" HDD, which limits its usefulness for a NAS setup :(
what happens if something breaks. Is there any warranty?
If you exclude the Chinese brands (including Lenovo) it is very, very unlikely that a Mini HP or Dell will break in your hands anytime soon. Some even come with extended warranties from companies that bought them and you'll be able to ask HP for help. But frankly I wouldn't bother with this, those machines are good hardware designed for 24h7 operation and will not break easily.
Totally, but that won't be a problem if you're 8th+ gen right now. I've had experiences like you describe with a Core 2 Duo about two years ago, even SSH was taking ages to connect because the CPU lacked some modern instruction for ECDH.
I get the point, but don’t forget those “secrets” are bcrypt hashes. Not really reversible.