I’m usually pretty good at finding deals on used hardware, but new stuff almost never feels like a value. This time, I think I found an outlier: an UP Squared 6000 single board computer that I grabbed for $63. For that price, you get a modern-ish x86 Celeron N6210 (6.5W TDP), dual Intel NICs (including 2.5GbE), onboard 32GB eMMC, multiple M.2 slots, and even a 40-pin GPIO header. It’s end-of-life, which is almost certainly why it’s this cheap—but that’s also what makes it interesting for tinkering. In the video I run it through the stuff I’d actually use it for in a homelab: Debian 13 on the eMMC, power testing (about 6.8W idle after tuning, and generally under ~10W even loaded), and a few “could this be useful?” installs. Home Assistant OS ran totally fine, and OPNSense also worked (I used UFS, not ZFS) and didn’t seem to struggle for basic gigabit routing. Proxmox technically installs (not on eMMC, I needed NVMe), but with 2GB RAM it’s basically LXC-only and even then you’re living on the edge. The board is quirky, the expansion is awkward, and the lack of case/power supply is annoying—but for the right use case at $63, it’s a fun little oddball.