I’d be sharing the physical manifestations of my various mental illnesses

unorganized extension cords running across the floor

machines that have been unplugged for months

empty energy drink cans all over the place

excess ethernet cable length occupying a sizeable chunk of the floor

router mounted to a plastic wall hook because I don’t have a drill

credible fire hazards

cable anti-management

I can’t get that all in a few photos, even if I wanted to

besides, I’m going to clean it up

eventually, one day

when I get to it

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.

more dust

Believe it or not I cleaned before taking the pic lol

This is the best thread so far. Really enjoying seeing peoples setups! Thanks @[email protected] !

That desk is about a million times cleaner than mine.