Laptops are designed to run quietly out the box. Not all laptops are quiet — I definitely wouldn't use my 2018 MacBook Pro as a home server — but with some tweaking of power-settings ...

On top of this, hosting your own Minecraft server comes with a whole heap of benefits that you'll wonder how you lived ...

The same sort of feature creep sneaks into some of the more popular self-hosted home server platforms as well, with things like openHAB requiring so much computing power that they barely function ...