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Open them up with a screwdriver and then either smash the disks inside or continue dissassembling it for fun before destroying the disks.

Interesting, gonna check out the selfhosted bookwyrm later.
I'm not much interested in sharing book reviews and the like so I will probably stick to https://calibre-ebook.com/ though.

https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/

I went for a tiny Ryzen 7600 (no X), so it comes at the cost of a worse cpu and worse gpu. :)

My server has a gaming vm with gpu passthrough (6650 XT). With my vm powered on and idle the whole server draws about 60w-65w. Monitor not included.

That's true, if there's no load then the difference isn't much money.
I'm running a NAS, some game servers, a forgejo instance and a jellyfin server and more on my machine so it's never truly idle and I forgot to think about that metric.

Ah right, that rings a bell. Proxmox and Ceph sounds like a perfect experiment for OPs hardware. :)
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html

Yeah, I focused on the I’m just looking for some fun experiments, projects part.
I wouldn't use the machines for anything other than experimenting for fun, they're power hungry too if counting per performance.

I would look into setting up a proxmox cluster ~~with high availability~~ on them and from there you can look into fun projects that you can run as proxmox vms or lxcs.
https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-cluster-guide/
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/High_Availability

edit: HA seems to require a shared disk, such as a SAN or NAS.