This "hobby" is like a drug, be careful getting into it. You'll start buying things you don't need but seem cool once you have them, and it can end up consuming a significant amount of your time.

I started out playing tons of video games as a kid, which naturally led me to building gaming PCs and diving deeper into PC gaming. From there, I got into homelabbing, partly for the tech curiosity, but also because I'm trying to reduce my dependence on big tech, avoid cloud storage fees, and move away from always-on smart assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google. It’s my way of gradually taking back control of my privacy and data, one service at a time.