Snide categorizations aside, there is a point somewhere in your comment. It is a running joke in the /r/homelab community that their servers use an unreasonable

Snide categorizations aside, there is a point somewhere in your comment. It is a running joke in the /r/homelab community that their servers use an unreasonable amount of power that they have to hide from their wives. It really IS unnecessary, as you can tell by the author of the article referring to their home network as "overkill".