Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
by chatmasta on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:39PM
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I like to keep my hardware competence sufficiently low so that I’m never cursed with the false confidence to even consider “drilling a hole in a UPS,” nevermind wiring it to a car battery in my closet…
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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
by nancyminusone on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:05PM
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You seem like the kind of guy who doesn't enjoy a nice sulfuric acid spill on the floor, haha
Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
by chatmasta on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:08PM
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I will mess with all kinds of hardware, especially mini PCs and routers.. I once had a few hundred iPhones in my closet… but I draw the line at anything that uses batteries or electricity in a non-standard way. If the wire can’t carry data, I’m not touching it.
Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, I fancied myself an experimenter, and I had a wire ripped off a lamp, and touched the two ends together…