local dns, static site hosting, local apt cache, various other network services (unifi controller if you've got those APs for example), remote/headless dev machine (maybe not for kernel or bigcorp java development), or whatever else you want. mail if you want. Anything :)
Those little thin clients aren't gonna be fast doing "big" things, but serving up a few dns packets or whatever to your local network is easy work and pretty useful.
Even these low-power CPU's are surprisingly capable. As an example of more fancy thing, one could slap in some external storage, install Jellyfin, and run their own local streaming service off such a machine. The CPU is modern enough for efficient hardware transcoding of a stream.
local dns, static site hosting, local apt cache, various other network services (unifi controller if you've got those APs for example), remote/headless dev machine (maybe not for kernel or bigcorp java development), or whatever else you want. mail if you want. Anything :)
Those little thin clients aren't gonna be fast doing "big" things, but serving up a few dns packets or whatever to your local network is easy work and pretty useful.
I use it for media hosting. Backups (connected USB disks), home assistant, syncthing
Even these low-power CPU's are surprisingly capable. As an example of more fancy thing, one could slap in some external storage, install Jellyfin, and run their own local streaming service off such a machine. The CPU is modern enough for efficient hardware transcoding of a stream.