I got a Minis forum S100 PC stick. It does work well with kodi. But! It can be a load of work to get going. This device is using a UFS storage chip. So not all distros will install on it by default and require some tweaks to load kernel modules at boot. I use the device with alpine Linux and kodi GBM on top (libreelec doesnt see the storage device).

Also keep a eye out for what the CPU supports on these lower end chips. Not all of them have great hardware decoding support.

I dont… I am absolutely stressing the DDR3 I have. But no way I am going to pay 500% for some memory!

I also have tidal, I do rip from it from time to time. As it happens that at random songs and artist are no longer available to play in my country.

Yeah exactly. Some artist also make their music available for download in high ress formats after a fee. Which I am happy to pay directly to them.

Lidarr, prowlarr, qbit and navidrome do wonders