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A perfect example of creating problems out of nowhere. Does OP have nothing productive to say other than dunking on the term? Since when does "homelab" resemble to anything concrete? Edit: Looking at your "de-googling" post, which resembles a lot of privacy theatre, this just seems like nothing more than an attention grab
in europe you can not have haphazardly build electricity system without calling it "lab". (you need electrician to do your electricity work, but calling it "lab" you can do it yourself ) so in that sense i agree that homelab is just another hijacked term to allow people do nonproductive nonsense just to feel great. look you have people here and on youtube selling (in more ways then one) nonsensical farces like "RPI c…
"degoogling" cost canada their sovereignty. just to refer to events of the past days
Just call it a puddle :) 1. No fault tolerance or high availability 2. It can evaporate just as quickly as it formed 3. Same contents as the cloud (plus some local contaminants) On a serious note: I wish more of the homelab community was focused on self-hosting (puddles should be awesome!), but it seems to mostly be folks justifying the purchase of large amounts of used equipment for “education” (internet points).
Back in the day you set up a homelab with enterprise level hardware so that you could gain experience on hardware and platforms you otherwise wouldn't have access to. Cisco firewalls, VMWare Hypervisors, vSan, etc.
Just call it a puddle :) 1. No fault tolerance or high availability 2. It can evaporate just as quickly as it formed 3. Same contents as the cloud (plus some local contaminants) On a serious note: I wish more of the homelab community was focused on self-hosting (puddles should be awesome!), but it seems to mostly be folks justifying the purchase of large amounts of used equipment for “education” (internet points).
I have a rack for convenience, not education. It got rid of all of my wiring mess since 90% of my networked stuff just lives together and now uses a single UPS. It's also relatively easy to move from place to place as I move apartments. Also, enterprise equipment just works better. After a few Comcast failures during meetings I now have a 5G failover; I also firewall corporate laptops from the rest of my home equipme…
Where I live now (in a house) is way, way cheaper and I get regional co-op 2.5 Gbps internet for $90/month.
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I have a rack for convenience, not education. It got rid of all of my wiring mess since 90% of my networked stuff just lives together and now uses a single UPS. It's also relatively easy to move from place to place as I move apartments. Also, enterprise equipment just works better. After a few Comcast failures during meetings I now have a 5G failover; I also firewall corporate laptops from the rest of my home equipme…
Buy a house now. It's usually cheaper since apartments (in expensive metro areas) are often tantamount to setting money on fire. :o) Where I live now (in a house) is way, way cheaper and I get regional co-op 2.5 Gbps internet for $90/month.
Not really. I live in an expensive area. I pay $4K+/month in rent for a nice apartment, and livable, nice houses here cost $3M+ which is over 700 months worth of rent.
1. The math doesn't work.
2. I don't have 3 million dollars.
3. I'm not going to fall into the stupid American trap of borrowing money to buy shit I can't afford just to stay poor and handcuffed to some bank. If I'm going to buy something that costs 3 million dollars I better have 3 million dollars in cash. That's how I roll. That's how I buy my car, computers, and my groceries. Make money -> spend money. Fuck borrowing. I don't do that shit.
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“My 1967 Camaro that’s on blocks with a couple of body panels off is not a ‘project car’”
No, at this point it’s more is a permanent art installation :D For real though, I have several cars on blocks at the moment. I can’t think of a single way to rationalize not calling them projects, even though when they were put up it was just going to be a “quick fix”. At least I finally got one in a state where I felt comfortable donating it.
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> in europe Laws don't work like this in the EU, let alone in all of Europe.
of course you can not have your whole house be build like that, but calling one room as lab is allowed in most continental europe countries. noone cares in Russia etc, you just have to make small donation to your public official (if they even care/notice) and everything is fine, even those pizzaboxes... EDIT: in most countries there are devices which can not be connected to grid without electrician in any case, like…
Just use the word we all use and get over it, dude.
A perfect example of creating problems out of nowhere. Does OP have nothing productive to say other than dunking on the term? Since when does "homelab" resemble to anything concrete? Edit: Looking at your "de-googling" post, which resembles a lot of privacy theatre, this just seems like nothing more than an attention grab