@GreenShimada old thin clients or similar (google Project TinyMiniMicro for a decent guide!) are perfect for this use case. x86, most of them have intel quicksync for transcoding, they are energy efficient and quiet.

@InternetCitizen2 Strawberry can also stream from Subsonic-compatible servers, which Navidrome is.

Navidrome does not support a traditional file system browser, but relies entirely on metadata in your music library. So if that is a mess, navidrome wont be as nice as it can be. Beets or Picard can mitigate that issue.

@InternetCitizen2 some of us are old enough to remember the amaroK 1.x days ;)

@FEIN buy something for routing and firewalling, and then something else for wifi.

place wifi access points (with a wired backhaul aka cable) near where you use wifi the most. add more access points to cover your appartment/house as needed.

I use two ancient tp-link eap 245v3 in my house, one per floor, and they are "dumb APs" only translating wifi to cable back to my switch and router. then a firewall/router.

you don't need much spec-wise. at my moms place I have a small SBC with two rj45 ports for routing/firewalling and similar dumb APs for wifi, and that setup manages their gigabit connection without issue.

@eli k8s does involve learning something new, yes. But that knowledge makes you attractive on the job market if you work in tech.

K8s isn’t that heavy resource wise on small clusters. The perk is to have one way to deploy workloads in different clusters.

@captcha_incorrect is there any way to disable the TRY STRONGBOX PRO button?

@InternetCitizen2 it's an older meme, but it checks out...

I am not sure about the relationship between strawberry and amarok, but it looks like strawberry just carbon copied amaroks interface from _way back_.

@tomten k3s is a k8s distribution. So are k0s, talos etc.