mine's really vanilla. a half width 1U supermicro, sitting on a filing cabinet in the office's closet, with 128 gig of ram. I put the free esxi 7 hypervisor o

mine's really vanilla. a half width 1U supermicro, sitting on a filing cabinet in the office's closet, with 128 gig of ram. I put the free esxi 7 hypervisor on it. This has let me consolidate almost every weekend experiment down to a single host. On it, I have an RKE2 cluster on ubuntu 22.04 VMs. Mostly this is so I can learn some kubernetes because the environment at work is so locked down, it actually helped me to just have my own. I host a few other VMs, mostly just as scratch pads for shell/ruby and an MPD server for streaming a private web radio off my NAS music share to a raspberry pi that is always streaming random music into my office. I have a single volume knob amp that lets me just turn it up, or turn it down, and that's all I can do to pick what I am listening to. It's cured my decision fatigue for music, and I really recommend it. It's way better than 20 years ago, when it was a museum of clutter.