OK, looking at this I can now understand why it may not all make immediate sense to someone who didn’t grow up here.

I’ll be using the motherboard at the link below to build my own NAS. I had a QNAP which died because it had an Intel Atom processor with known flaws, so I do not trust them at all any more. The only gaming I do on the P50 is SuperTux Kart and 16-bit console emulation through Retroarch. The most taxing things I do on it are video editing and running a few VMs at the same time which that machines more than capable of doing at the moment. https://store.vikings.net/en/d16ryf

Lenovo ThinkPad P50. Prob not the most Linux compatible machine as it has an NVIDIA Quadro M2000M but it has 64GB of RAM and I got a good deal on it. Had a Pinebook Pro but it died. Also run a few bits in Docker on a Raspberry pi 4. Planning on building a NAS with FSF approved hardware next year when I have the cash. When I eventually need to upgrade from the P50 I’ll prob build an FSF approved desktop machine as I’ve found I pretty much only use it at my desk