I have an Asus NUC 12th gen with 32gb of ram and 1 TB of storage atm. I plan on expanding it with a DAS then run with that for a very long while until I can get a nice rack to play with and do some sys admin stuff down the line.
But ATM I got an arrstack going for Movies, TV, and Music. Alongside that I have Stalwart for mail, Immich for photo backup/gallery, Vaultwarden for password and auth manager, and opencloud for cloud storage.
There's always a way. It'll just get maybe harder to do at most
More adoption by the public
Enterprise decommissions, workplace, stuff ehere they just want to get rid of it quick
You have breached the start of an arrStack. A beginning of a rabbit hole
Downsides of capitalism
It's always good to have redundancy for a house like UPS battery backups BCDR stuff. Vps would be a way to provide redundancy but I would say make it as redundant as possible while in one place then have that whole architecture in a VPS and or some other server a friend has or something
Social cues must be hard
An excuse to price gouge
Maybe protect from the raw public. But from private brokers, heavily doubt it.