NUCs are surprisingly well-built little machines. I have one in my car, and I give them my absolute seal of approval. I've heard of people running little VMware clusters on them too.
That is cool as hell, this is almost* exactly what I wanted for my usually-but-not-always desktop’d NUC for many years. Of course it was released right after I gave up and got a laptop, hahaha.
* although getting power to the NUC could be tricky I guess
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