Does this media server need to be accessible when you are away from home? Will you store personal data on it?

Out of band management: this is a server feature that lets you access and manage the server even if the OS is down. That’s important if you may be away from home and need to fix a boot problem.

You can simulate some of this with PiKVM (remote console access) and PDU solutions (remote power control).

Redundant power: servers often have redundant power supplies, so that if one fails it can still function.

You can simulate this, with short downtime, by having a replacement ready. Mini PCs make this easy by using relatively inexpensive laptop style external power bricks. But also think about the power circuit - is the server on the same breaker/fuse with something that could potentially take the circuit down while you are away?

ECC RAM: this is about data integrity. If there is a failure in non-ECC then a bit flip could cause data corruption.

You can’t really get this without ECC. Using a file system that has anti-corruption features can help reduce some of the risk. You probably trust your data to consumer PC hardware, so this would be no different really. It’s about risk mitigation.

And that’s the main thing here, deciding on the use cases and prioritizing/budgeting how you mitigate risks to each.

I’d say your chances are very good. Even their high end rackmount models work with the usbhid-ups driver. Don’t think they would change things up in this regard since they would also need to change their software.

Apron is a fun one. The Latin word for cloth, banner, tablecloth is mappa. It’s the same word used in “mappa mundi” meaning map of the world (we contract that to just map now). French often changed Latin m to n, so mappa became nappe, then nape.

English borrowed nape directly for cloth and added it’s native diminutive suffix -kin to refer to a small cloth, a napkin.

But there was also a similar diminutive in French - naperon. A cloth to keep your front clean. English borrowed that too, as napron. Then, sometime around the 15th century, “a napron” got mistaken for “an apron” since they sound identical. And that’s what we have today. (Source etymonline and others)