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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it's more than good enough to run all this ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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[โ€“] Unusable3151@lemmy.ml 134 points 2 months ago (7 children)

people put too much "lab" and not enough "home" in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.

[โ€“] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn't around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else's toes.

[โ€“] northernlights@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago

Dang that's the dream. Never move out :D

[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Very nice. You guys with all the toys. I bet she's fun tho.

[โ€“] northernlights@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

more dust

Believe it or not I cleaned before taking the pic lol

[โ€“] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

[โ€“] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How dejected could you be when you can bring someone such joy?

That man is a menace.

[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

That desk is about a million times cleaner than mine.

[โ€“] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

This is the best thread so far. Really enjoying seeing peoples setups! Thanks @northernlights@lemmy.today !

[โ€“] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When did people start using the term 'lab' for this sort of thing, and why?

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I think because it lets them see themselves as scientists or so

[โ€“] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy home labs ๐Ÿ˜‚