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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―
Everyone is asking for dust and jank, so here goes (didn't bother cleaning as you can see):
Behind me are some 30 guitars a few older than I am, a couple Korg controllers, a DAW, various and sundry computer/music gear. Top left monitor on the wall monitors my pFsense box, the one to the right is for surveillance cams. Sorry I didn't have the presence of mind to switch the monitor to the Linux box as I don't discriminate between OS platforms.
A little late to the party, but here's mine.
Oh yeah, now that's a HOMElab
Love it.
What are the specs on that pepsi box? How's it handle the load???
It's only the mini Pepsi cans iirc, so they aren't as load bearing as I'd like. God willing, I'll upgrade to fanta boxes one day.
Only two of the minis are in use. The other two i am just messing with different things. Still have three more not in use and unsure what I am going to do with them. Two extreme AP not being used and probably never will.
What are the two circular grey devices on top of the five port switch?
It's one device that's a Google WIFI mesh AP
Is that an EliteDesk 800 G3, G4, or G5?
800G3 it is. Not that it matters much, it's more than a few users on a semi busy homelab need.
it's a mini pc, standing sideways, with a USB to ethernet adapter and USB HDD
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
people put too much "lab" and not enough "home" in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.
When did people start using the term 'lab' for this sort of thing, and why?
Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn't around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else's toes.
Dang that's the dream. Never move out :D
How can you hear the DJ tunes over the server fans?
Canβt hear either over my tinnitus
The server is the black box on top of the rack. In the rack it's networking and UPSs for both the server and my computer on the desk.
I think we have the same UPS
This is neat, doesn't take too much place so fits in a classic house situation.
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 Sacle mini itx server running upstairs with my "arr" stack and some other useful tools.
Now that looks like a lab :)
Thank you π₯Ή It's been quite the experience lol
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.
I thankfully snagged this one pretty cheap off eBay. It's actually an 8-gpu mining rig frame that conveniently fit my CEB motherboard lol
Not as clean as I would like, but way better than it started!
5 node Kubernetes cluster and a NAS. Runs about 250 pods.
It's cleaner than 50% of what I've seen at work.
I was too lazy to put on clothes and go out to my shack. This picture is a bit old. It's missing a lot of mess and my PeerTube server.
the hardrive just out in the wild, living life like it was meant to be lived.
Projects that im running:
Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.
Solar powered web server. Its going to be repurposed into a meshtastic node soon.
Somewhat jank setup of a heltek which is also an ebook reader. It runs a webserver to upload the book in txt format, then I can take it on the go. I still have to do some work on the text.
