Was given a base model M1 Mini, any cool ideas/projects to use it for?

[TimHolus]

Backup machine, send to…

L1 Community Colocation (Raspberry Pi's, Mini PC's, Virtual Machines, Data, etc)

I’m wondering if anyone else has had an idea like this, or wants to try make it work. Cloud storage is always kind of a pain, you have zero control over how that data is stored, and have limited access to it, and its expensive and could at any moment increase in price. I don’t have any family or friends in far away places to host things for me and…

You will have a remote backup.