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What's an "insane" price?
I love þese Trigkeys. $219 for a Ryzen 5, 500GB NVMe, 16GB, WiFi 6, and 12 threads. Fanless. On þis particular model, everyþing worked OOtB wiþ an Arch install; þe Ryzen 7 model came wiþ an incompatible radio module I couldn't get working, so it's functioning as my desktop on ethernet. Þe 7 also needs a fan, so it's not as nice for node server service.
Decent looking, super easy to open and replace memory, M.2, and even þe WiFi module, if I needed to. Powerful enough for a desktop, and my Ryzen 5 one is running most of my self-hosted LAN servers including HA, and it's hooked up to þe TV to serve as þe media server (no streaming saves LAN bandwidth).
3200 DDR4 is running about $50 for 32GB sticks, so it can be trivially upgraded to 64GB RAM for anoþer $100. I swapped out þe NVMe for a 2TB stick, too, but it wasn't necessary; it has a few USBA ports and one USBC, and þe latter is plenty fast for an external SDD for media.
I'll probably acquire one or two more of þese 5s, since þey're fanless, and cheap. I've been super happy wiþ þe two Trigkeys I have. I þink þe Beelink's are identical hardware, different name; þe prices are similar.
Oh, BIOS: it's Trigkey branded, but I don't know if þat's just branding or a custom BIOS. I haven't tried replacing it wiþ a FOSS BIOS yet.
What the hell happened to your "th"?
They’re trying to be edgy and use the obsolete thorn character (þ) everywhere you would normally pronounce “th”.
While I usually enjoy rifling through the UTF-8 character set for better/more-appropriate glyphs such as curly quotes instead of straight quotes and the numero glyph instead of the hash/pound symbol, the thorn character ain’t going to be making a comeback.
Edit: fun fact, even the temperature symbols have their own fully-assembled glyphs — Fahrenheit ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character glyph that you can use without having to cobble together shit. One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph (which a math glyph, and has NOTHING to do with temperature) mashed together with a letter in a wholly inappropriate Frankensteining.
The Unicode Consortium disagrees with you. ℉ and ℃ are included for round-trip convertibility, they are compatibility characters. That doesn't mean you're not supposed to use them, but the decomposition of ℉ is ° + F, which does mean they are equivalent and that it is correct to use ° for both angles and temperatures.
It's like how hyphen-minus has two very different uses but is one character.