Except the hardware itself is really old which means that the performance will be much lower and thus the CPU usage will be higher. The older systems also have much slower memory and bus speeds.

You would be much better buying a more modern consumer CPU since the performance boost will mean that the CPU utilization will be lower. Most workloads including Jellyfin do not benefit from tons of slow CPU cores. Things will work better the higher CPU and ram frequently you have.

Server CPUs are a poor choice outside of very specific applications

All major distros have been patched as of writing this (you are welcome to correct me if I’m wrong)

I would pickup a old workstation of of a site like eBay. Last time I was shopping around they were pretty cheap but that was pretty insanity pricing

Why tho?

For $250 you can build a pretty solid system with lots of storage

Consume very few energy

Don’t go with ancient hardware if you are wanting energy efficiency

You could just install security updates

Interesting enough systems running SELinux seem to be potentially protected against this assuming SELinux is configured to block AF_ALG

On Android AF_ALG is locked down with SElinux so it shouldn’t be impacted

A local compromise happens more than you think

Unattended-upgrades has a config option to auto reboot

https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability.html

Not all companies are chasing short term profit

In a healthy environment companies work to maintain a healthy customer base. Competition is what drives innovation and keeps companies well behaved.

Private companies are fine as long as they are run be sensible people.

The issue with Canonical is that they have been shit for a long time. They are being proped up by Microsoft and a legacy that ended 15 years ago.

Based on what they did with snap I wouldn’t hold your breath

You’d be surprised

Sshfs has way more overhead and doesn’t do remotely the same thing

You could just avoid killing processes

v11 goes eol in 2 months

I genuinely don’t understand your reasoning

SMB is also encrypted

This likely will have much better performance than tailscale at the cost of being Cloudflare

Mozilla really should stop burning money