I love repurposing thin clients. There were a few gens of HP thin clients that always seemed to have their mass storage devices die, and end up on eBay for pea

I love repurposing thin clients. There were a few gens of HP thin clients that always seemed to have their mass storage devices die, and end up on eBay for peanuts. I picked up a handful of the 64-bit CPU ones and set them up to boot diskless with LibreELEC to act as Kodi stations for eg. media streaming and distributed video players on TVs on my network. They boot quickly enough to not need to think about them too much, and it was easy to NFS mount my media library from my main servers. Kodi controller apps from my phone and things like AirPlay/TuneBlade to cast arbitrary stuff to them has been a real quality of life improvement for my family.