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

    So I agree that the advice is good advice however consider…

    1. They may not pay for hydro
    2. They get this dell 2950 for free and this is ground zero for them.

    I think we can deliver that information without demoralizing someone out of the sub.

    We all can’t have 42U cabinets with better datacenters than most medium sized businesses

    • IlTossico@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Of course. But there are situations of people posting about some very old stuff, that even for free or for tinkering, wouldn’t be good. We are talking about vintage stuff, maybe good if you want to make an old homeland, to run just old stuff. What can I say in those situations other than that.

      • 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