It always comes down to time & money!

This looks nice. I might have to add another node with this setup.

Start with the equipment you probably already have lying around, it’s perfect for tinkering and learning. I had three or four older laptops collecting dust, and with the right tools and services, they've turned out to be surprisingly powerful.

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.

Bought a nice Geekwork P252 heavy duty, aluminum alloy case for this PI 3

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Sunday is the day to start new projects. Making a WolNUT Pi server. My power keeps going out at my house and don’t have a good solution to powering down my homeland devices. I’m going to use an ols raspberry pi 3B that’s sitting in a bin to act as the server/client + wake on lan the devices when the battery on the UPS is above 50%.

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The engagement looks light so far but slowly growing. I look forward to engaging and learning as I tinker more with my homelab.