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.

  • odinsdi@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I mean, I agree we shouldn’t be rude about it, but this is not r/vintagecomputing and if someone posts that 2950 with DDR2 ECC ram, I feel it is a worthwhile thing to respectfully point out.

    • Canonip@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is more accurate. You could get a 2950 . Or just get an old optiplex or Fujitsu client PC.

      30W instead of 200W, more recent and probably faster CPU even if it is a core i5 or sth

    • speaksoftly_bigstick@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It shouldn’t be the first thing said. And it shouldn’t be the only thing said in a comment.

      I agree with OP. I haven’t posted my setups over the years because I didn’t want the armchair quarterbacks to appear and rain on my parade.

      Edit: my bad you said agree not to be rude like ops examples in your first sentence. I still disagree with the second part of your comment though. It’s not needed if not asked for.