You can drploy a Cloudflare worker that exposes an APi endpoint with an SQLite DB completely for free and without doing any maintenance. I don’t think the DB is encrypted , so it wouldn’t be my first choice if privacy is a concern. There’s a bit of a learning curve with all the UI bloat but once you figured it out it’s a very hassle free solution.

Shit just works as usual

I’d honestly be open for that but would an AMD setup not take up a lot of space and consume lots of power / be loud?

It seems like in terms of price & speed, the Macs suck compared to other options, but if you don’t have a lot of space and don’t want to hear an airplane engine constantly I’m wondering if there are options.