I know you didn’t mention video but if you think you might want to host jellyfin in the future, make sure your CPU supports hardware decoding for modern formats.

For example, my lenovo mini pc with an i5-6500 has support for h265 but not h265 10bit or AV1, which makes playing those formats on some devices basically impossible without re-encoding the files.

I hate AI because I want to be able to afford RAM and storage again

My group never left fortunately. We still have a dude paying to host a ts3 server and we always get weird comments when we occasionally invite people we play with