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To go back to your car analogy, isn't an RPi like a 25 year old econo beater? I always took homelab to refer to a home datacenter; I always assumed (possibly in
by fc417fc802 2y ago
To go back to your car analogy, isn't an RPi like a 25 year old econo beater? I always took homelab to refer to a home datacenter; I always assumed (possibly incorrectly) that the origin of the name was due to the analogy of someone who sets up something like a chemistry lab in their garage.
I think of it as the computational equivalent to a home machine shop. If you don't have some heavy duty equipment can you really claim you have your own shop setup?
- sodality2 2y agoIf someone works on and tweaks and gets to know their 25 year old econo beater, I don't think anyone has the right to say they aren't a car enthusiast. It's less about the horsepower (or ghz) and more about the passion put into it. For example you could add an ad-blocking DNS server on your devices and it would work just fine - but if you put in the effort to self-host it, even on a Pi, it's (IMO) a home lab.