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.

  • IlTossico@alien.topBEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    L O L

    What can I say to someone that gets an OLD IBM with a dual socket 4 cores CPU, with 2 GB of ram and thinks he hit a jackpot, for 100€, with a system that idles at 200W and has the power of an i3 first gen.

    Of course it’s a heater, or a door stop, what other things you can do with that system.

    Would be better if those people maybe posted before buying those systems, for shopping suggestions. That’s a topic. Not your complaints.

    • KalistoCA@alien.topBEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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
          2·
          1 year 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

      • IlTossico@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If someone asks for advice before buying, no problems, there are already people asking for those and we are mostly polite about those, saying why an old server wouldn’t be the best solution.

        But for someone that already has one, and post of it, I can only make some satire about it. We are talking about vintage stuff. And, I need to admit, I’m the first to love that old stuff, but I would compliment someone if it posts it on a vintage sub, but on Homelab we need working stuff, with real benefits, it’s a different manner.