cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24850430

EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think

EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans

    • Tja@programming.dev
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      1 day ago

      Homelab = I have a bunch of computers I experiment and learn with, often breaking stuff and starting from scratch

      Self-host = I have a bunch of computers where I run my own email service, I replaced Netflix with plex/jellyfin, I have a Minecraft server for my friend group, etc

      • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Thanks! I am still pretty inexperienced so I’m inadvertently doing both at the same time with the same few machines haha

        • Tja@programming.dev
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          1 day ago

          That’s the thing, it’s pretty typical to have both and do both at the same time! You just have some machines more stable so you don’t wipe your photos when you break k8s.

    • pezhore@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      I don’t know if I can completely explain the difference, but I would classify myself as a home labber not a self-hoster.

      I use Proton for email and don’t have any YouTube/Twitter/etc alt front ends. The majority of my lab (below) is storage and compute for playing around with stuff like Kubernetes and Ansible to help me with my day job skills. Very little is exposed to the Internet (mostly just a VPN endpoint for remote lab work).

      I view self-hosting as more of a, “let me put this stuff on the internet instead of of using a corporation’s gear” effort. I know folks who host their own Mastodon instance, have their own alt front ends for various social media, their own self-hoster search engines.