Just a random powered USB-C Hub with a few external drives on one port and a Thunderbolt SSD I had from an old project on the other. For now, I just use the SMB server built into MacOS because I've not gotten around to installing Asahi on it.
I think I turned auto update off on this machine but if it reboots, you would have to login first. Doesn't bother me, though. I don't have any uptime requirements.