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Stop the hate (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by helpmehomeowner@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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.

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[–] segfaulting@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol make this sub higher quality, mate this is the shittest post I've seen on here in a while. Yearly running costs are a real thing, people need to be aware of.

[–] theniwo@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Tbf I had a 200 Euro bill. For one year. If i invest say 1000 euros, for a low power setup, id be running it for at least 5 years for it to pay off.

I currently run a truenas on old consumer hardware and the rest I host is on sbcs.