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Another good cheap option if the Pi doesn't suit you is an up-cycled thin client - some HP T620 configs (quad AMD Jaguar, 4GB RAM, 16GB flash) are <=$55 on eBay US w/PSU.

(There's also the T620 Pro, but those are going for a bit more these days since they make good home routers when you add a quad gig-e card...)

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You can also always just find an old desktop box and install a lightweight distro on it -- my grandpa got a new computer a year or so ago so I took his ~10 year old HP box, wiped it, and installed alpine. Now I have it just plugged into my router and I have a few cron jobs and docker services that I run on it.

That too. Then again I'm old enough that seven year old computers should be ancient, but with a good video card and enough RAM/SSD they still do almost any job.

I happened to have received a small pile of that exact piece of kit a while back. It is easily capable of running a full desktop OS and playing older games. Absolutely ridiculous specs for a thin client.

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