I thought about getting an RPi again recently - but they've gotten hideously expensive (if you can even find them in stock anywhere) They still look kinda neat

I thought about getting an RPi again recently - but they've gotten hideously expensive (if you can even find them in stock anywhere) They still look kinda neat, but if you really want to run your "home lab" at "home", I think you're better off getting an SFD or similar and running VirtualBox Personally ... I don't want more stuff running in my house, and prefer to pay someone else a couple bucks for the server to run in their datacenter :) (Of course ... that's probably not gonna work if you're wanting to "do something cool" with other data/systems you have at home)