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.

  • KalistoCA@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I hear ya I think the ops thinking is about the delivery right … we can just try to be kind to people who don’t know instead of a typical elitist computer people the world knows we are.

    The inefficiency of those old machines isn’t open for debate they are facts

    If you are new here and look at some of the setups around Christ im intimated

    If we are experts we should be able to guide newcomers with expertise which is more than just oh that’s no good