I use mine as an ultra low-cost self-hosting machine. I have the cheapest dual-core NUC 11 (bnuc11atkc2) with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD (figured that would be eno

I use mine as an ultra low-cost self-hosting machine. I have the cheapest dual-core NUC 11 (bnuc11atkc2) with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD (figured that would be enough) running Debian in a poorly ventilated IKEA cabinet. It runs Pi-hole, Home Assistant for my smart stuff (Zigbee stick via USB), Livebook (live coding notebooks) and Nextcloud, everything in Docker, and has two 4TB USB HDDs on BTRFS exposed via SMB as a cheap NAS with daily Restic backups to Backblaze. The machine sits at 49-53 °C and I have the fan curve set so the fan only starts spinning when it gets a little over that. Which I believe doesn't happen at all, because it's so underpowered. I don't know exactly how much power it consumes, but the whole IKEA cabinet sits at 16 W for my router, one Raspberry and this NUC together, so probably not much.