Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it's often hard to get the funds.
You're going to get much better performance now too if the monitor was plugged into the motherboard before
when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup.
That's essentially what Storj, Sia, etc.. are for, they're decentralized storage systems where users can contribute storage to the network which automatically distributes data over all the 'hosters'.
It'll do a reboot if there's a bad crash of something important, I've had my S21 do that once or twice.
A typical NUC that I know of draws like 10-20W, maybe you're looking at the power supply maximum ratings, and not the actual tested draw?
As long as they leave the local backup option that sounds like a good idea to me.
The lack of account mobility is really a huge problem with the fediverse, you lose all your stuff if you move to another instance.
Fedora or maybe Bazzite if you're gaming or using an nvidia GPU I'd say.
Probably not by much, since CPUs have had hardware acceleration for AES encryption for a long time now.
I always prefer software over hardware for encryption, RAID, etc.. Because it's portable and not tied to a specific piece of hardware.
Surely with the money they burn they could have fixed up the store by now?
It can be really frustrating to fix a bug, especially one caused by a huge change like switching to KDE because so many things have changed and could be the cause. Especially if you're not someone who likes to do that kind of stuff (me), and would prefer things just work in the first place so re-installing a KDE version is the way to go.
Yes some, but the power consumption is extremely high. A cheap $40 PC with an i5-6500 CPU would out perform it at about 1/15th the power draw.
This thing is mostly just interesting to play with.