My record is 63 days, interrupted by power outage due to electrical problems in the house. I barely did maintenance on it during that period. It’s more of a home server than a homelab at this point.

Low power, consumer grade hardware. That’s the only thing I can think of.

I wonder how many homelabbers pay the difference between their used server hardware and new consumer hardware every couple of years due to their electricity bill.

• The overall enshittification of online digital services.
• The fact that I was at the mercy of multiple companies and my ISP to turn on/off my smart devices connected to my LOCAL network
• The fact that I was paying for spotify just to play the same few hundred songs, most of which I’d already purchased in the past. Same thing for Disney+ and the kids shows my nephews watch.
• The company that provided the password manager I used got hacked
• I was using a digital assistant with an always-on microphone as a glorified timer.

That’s just off the top of my head.