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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it's more than good enough to run all this Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Including sbcs there are 8 computers in there. There are 5 more laptops and another retired desktop joining. There are plans to get solar and batteries so I'm checking how much power I can actually draw.
edit: just found the weird netbook with usb3 ethernet that I used to run homeassistant bare metal back in the day. one more for the computer pile.
Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!
Makes mine look boring.
Yours looks power hungry thoughβ¦
I'm on a variable rate electricity tariff and I use Home Assistant and iLO to power things on and off automatically, so most of the time it pulls 30-50W. At peak it pulls north of 1.5KW but that's really rare.
Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef's kiss!
These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.
Right? Took it from a job I left 10 years ago.
Two rack rails bolted together with a power strip and a tray holding my server mini PC. My router is bolted on as well to act as a switch for everything while also providing Wifi to my phone and laptop
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You want a double-backslash in Markdown.
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yields
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Whereas:
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Hey you know what, screw it, see for yourself how it performs: apps.lorteau.fr
BTW I'm really liking asciinema, I think it's a great idea.
Example:
Edit: OMG it's so annoying how lemmy just rewrites img links - https://share.southernlights.fr/u/northernlights/2026-04-08_19-04-1775678390.mp4
My janky homelab lol. Mostly ebay secondhand Enterprise stuff and a Chinese SXM2 mezzanine board to run dual NVLinked 16gb V100s. I also have a TrueNAS Scale mini itx server running upstairs with my "arr" stack and some other useful tools.
I've wanted to make frames like that but those aluminum extrusions are so expensive here. I'm tempted to just get stainless square tube and weld it. The welder would appreciate getting dusted off and receiving the attention.
Did some one ask for dust cos I got plenty! Also have one desktop with 30TB of memory, separate small form for HA and Pihole, networking equipment, cooling fans and a UPS all packed into one (un)tidy cupboard. The door doesn't quite close but enough to hide it from my partner!
mine is 3 old laptops and a switch in a pile
honestly the cable management is ok ... ish
Awesome thread !
So many cool homelabs !
Mine is a little janky with some old tech. The tower was running an old FX-8320, but the hard drive "landed" a few weeks ago.
Here is my combination lab and workbench. I have been busy trying to buy/sell/trade computers that I have become significantly behind on cleaning as I go. I also just got the network rack:
I haven't had time between work, hustling, and home maintenance to finish getting the cabling managed or the NAS:
The goal is to get the NAS in the rack, UPS to the items in the rack, the 3D printer under the bench, and the monitors on the wall and off the bench. Then I'll start in on plastic organizers for the bits and parts that clutter my bench.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| PoE | Power over Ethernet |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
17 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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Whatβs that web interface thing? Is it home made? I keep thinking about doing something like that to save me having to remember port numbers for the different services on my home server.
It's just heimdall, behind haproxy (on the raspberrypi) so everything is on the same domain (and behind cloudflare because i'm a madman who exposes stuff publically)