> The Minisforum, Beelink and the generic aliexpress units are incredibly cheap.

Certainly are, hard to resist for personal use, but then I read that one will likely never receive a BIOS update.

Also, those moments when you wonder whether something in your home is listening, resulting in ads for something you've just talked about... well that is usually some super cheap product listening for keywords and selling the info to a company that can't get away with doing the listening themselves...