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Most of homelabbing is this. it's an outlet to play. unixporn, neofetch, pretty dashboards to link to all of your content pirating tools, etc.
by whalesalad 3y ago
Most of homelabbing is this. it's an outlet to play. unixporn, neofetch, pretty dashboards to link to all of your content pirating tools, etc.
- lostlogin 3y agoThis this a negative or a positive? And more broadly, a lot of software could be summarised as a pretty packaging of a basic tool.
- calamari4065 3y agoIt really depends on your perspective and what you want out of a homelab. If you want to tinker with servers as a hobby it's a huge plus. If you want things to Just Work, this is probably not for you
- favorited 3y agoI've been a "Just Work" person for a long time, but over the last couple years I've shifted to DIYing more instead of buying turn-key products. I replaced my off-the-shelf NAS with a custom TrueNAS box, and swapped my router+firewall+switch+WiFi all-in-one with a low-energy device running pfSense and a dedicated WiFi AP. I have been pleasantly surprised to find that, after the initial research & setup, things still "just work!" In some cases, more reliably (and way more quietly!) than before.
- calamari4065 3y agoI've had the same experience in reverse. I'm a tinkerer and I always have been. I bought a server expecting to tinker with it all the time. What fun! But no, after the first couple hours of tinkering it Just Works. This past week I settled in for a good solid weekend of getting a gitlab server stood up. I was looking forward to it! Imagine my disappointment when it was a single command that took half an hour to run. Oh well, I guess it just means more time for my other hobbies.