I’ll probably get super downvoted for this but…

Can we please, for the love of homelab, stop shitting on folks who are excited to share their hardware specs/setup/scores, no matter how old their setup is?

These are some of what I consider low effort comments and I’m seeing more of them each post:

  • “nice heater”
  • “good luck with your electric bill”
  • “you could have bough X for that price” (unsolicited advice)

Home labs are LABS (woof). We tinker, we learn, we play. If someone scores an “ewaste” blade system for $200 that’s 1kwh to run with the processing power of a potato, let’s be happy for them. There’s value and fun in these systems. It’s not YOUR lab, it’s not YOUR electric bill, it’s not YOUR space heater, it’s not YOUR hearing to worry about.

Let’s make this sub higher quality.

  • myeyespy@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I agree fully. The comments in this thread is highlighting the problem.

    This negativity drives out passionate lovers and newcomers. I want to see the photos of old useless systems with blind enthusiasm from people learning.

    I don’t want snarky unsolicitated comments, the place for those are in posts where people ask for advice with a thought about a system they think about or need better alternatives to and ask for those.

    My dream main system I’ll buy soon is a decade old space heater where I’ve made the active choice emotionally for it, over a brand new system that I could afford. Yes, it is great value but the pick is not one of reason or budget.

    • Living_Setting_3890@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I do enjoy the novel nature of doing dumb Setups and getting things working! My central password manager runs decryptions on an Apple IIe platinum, then the actual queries are processed for my various devices by a bit warden container