What should I do with a spare elitedesk sff?

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I already have a nas running on one. I already have a Kodi/HTPC desktop. Running endeavor w/ KDE.

I was going to put regular arch on it but was wondering if anyone had some other ideas.

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Homebrew router?

I put 3 of them into a proxmox cluster with multi network plugged into the WIFI m.2 A+E slots so they can act as router and other servers and I can migrate from system to system when/if I need to do maintenance.

I was thinking that... Have you tried this?

Yes - I have been running IPFire on an old desktop for several years now and I really like it.

I used an old thin client as a pfSense firewall for years... but the DSL into passthrough mode and effectively made that a modem, so in effect pfSense was the "router"

If you don't have something like that, it's a step up from a standard ISP one.

Not sure about long term power consumption though...

Could turn it into a emulation box, play some classics.

I kinda already have that on my HTPC with retroarch. Any tips for roms? Feel free to dm.

Do you have experience with N64 rooms and modern controllers?

https://www.proxmox.com/en/

I've tried it twice but can't seem to get the feel for it. I thinknit might be overkill for anything I need.

I was about to say something snarky about VMWare, but... Proxmox took me a bit to get used to, but now that I have it figured out, I really like it. It's totally overkill for me, but one day...

Scratch machine to test Ansible playbooks for maintaining and restoring your other servers.

I just use VM's for that. I recently learned that Vagrant, an infra as code for virtual machines designed for creating testing VMs, creates an Ansible Inventory that you can run your playbooks at.