It's a silly little topic but such relatively low stakes geeky discussion are definitely fun on a quiet HN Sunday (as I work to setup a new NAS unit as it happe

It's a silly little topic but such relatively low stakes geeky discussion are definitely fun on a quiet HN Sunday (as I work to setup a new NAS unit as it happens), glad you found it interesting and a fun thing to contemplate a bit myself. I've believed in more local capabilities for various reasons (not least being in a rural area with crap internet promotes more on your own LAN), long before I heard the "homelab" term. I'm not on any of the sites that use it myself, but it didn't strike me as odd when I first encountered it either. >Calling any desk that has a computer, tools and a few RasPis belonging to someone who is comfortable writing code a Homelab? Still icky. Everyone starts somewhere! You can do a great deal with not much which is one of the magic things about tech these days. A few tools and RPis could be more power in some respects than state of the art facilities a couple decades ago. I think it's the spirit as much as anything, whether someone is digging and experimenting. And really don't forget our bubbles, for most people having a single RPi at all, let alone one dedicated to messing around with vs serving a specific purpose, would be unusual. And then if the bug bites them and they want to start going further, what term should be the umbrella under which they head down the 'ol rabbit hole? "Homelab" seems pretty on-point and innocuous? >I’m going to finish up in my Plantlab, spend time in my Exerciselab and then go make a sandwich in my Calorielab. Well, if you're actually breeding brand new experimental plants, inventing new exercises or probing the limits of your body with cutting edge bio monitoring/hacking, or spending lots of time coming up with new recipes then no matter how small scale by all means call those all $Xlabs! But by this terminology I think you might be more correct calling them your Selffarm, Selfgym, and Selfrestaurant if you're mostly using them to perform routines you're already practiced at and are interesting primarily in results... :p