There’s a few boards that bridge the gap between pi and a pc for media servers and small NAS uses. Look at Asus Tinker board, Odroid, Udoo Bolt, Orange Pi, Rockpro64, BeagleBone

Yeah the celeron and pentium models are amazing low power machines to run Home Assistant on. Mine is running half a dozen other docker addons including frigate to do ai object detection (offloading most of the heavy lifting to a Google coral chip plugged into usb)

Being the default industry standard meant drivers were never a hassle

Mods are leaving first, their tools have been neutered, and they’d rather move to lenmy, kbin or anything else where they don’t have to fight the admins. Users will follow