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

  • 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.

    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Thanks this makes sense!

      I think I’m somewhere in between the two. I’m still pretty inexperienced so I might say I’m self hosting through my homelab as I expect to screw something up any day now haha. So far so good though