I bought a M1 Mac Mini second-hand and it’s great for home server purposes. Like others have said, you’ll be using containers a bunch, so bare metal doesn’t matter quite as much as it used to. They’re power efficient and offer good performance. If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, there’s a bunch of other benefits to having a Mac set up as a server (e.g. content caching for updates/iCloud content).

Cyan’s clarification is helpful, but if anything it just shows that all this LLM flavour-of-the-day stuff isn’t a magic solution to all our problems. At the end of the day, it sounds like the content is a bit lifeless and underwhelming simply because their ideas and lore were a bit lifeless and underwhelming.