

You can buy a used office computer from businesses that are upgrading (downgrading) to win11 for less than 50 bucks. They tend to be relatively low power, relatively quiet, lots of PCI slots and USB ports so there are many upgrade options, yet low entry price for a decent computer. If you plan on using as a jellyfin server: either mind the chip now for transcoding capabilities (there’s lists out there) or know that if you want that, you’ll have to put in a GPU at some point if the onboard can’t transcode well.
I have a mix of external and internal SSD’s. Some are running way not as fast as they theoretically could, but it all works well enough for me. You can start with what you have, storage is still expensive.
There’s way worse songs this could be happening with…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE&t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&t=28
Lava chicken is quite groovy actually, tasty. You’re in luck.