Procrastination or actual productivity improvement? Whatever the case may be, I built a custom ITX system to run TrueNAS. Intended as my new high-speed editing pool this thing rips, but it's not without it faults.
Case: https://teenage.engineering/store/computer-2
Case Fan: https://geni.us/czFGU
TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-community-edition/
Thunderbolt connection forum post: https://forums.truenas.com/t/thunderbolt-networking-between-macos-and-truenas/29383