Long weekends are the perfect time to nuke the staring rig in your home lab. Or at least that’s what I’ve decided to tell myself.
I used to be a Windows Insider (I mean, I technically still am) running the latest builds on my primary rig. My bestie would razz me when I’d run into an issue or two and decide to nuke the install and start again. But I loved it.
I learn a lot of the time by doing. I have always approached my love of technology with this in mind. It’s how I discovered Linux and how much I loved Gnome back in the glory days. It’s how I built my first Hackintosh. It’s how I fell in love with Arch. It’s why I decided to expand my homelab beyond a little NAS.
Don’t ask me to compile things myself, cause I haven’t tried to do that since I tried to compile Gentoo without knowing what I was getting into in the early ‘00s. But you can bet I will give it another go on a spare machine one of these days.
So why am I nuking this time around? It’s time. September marks my official return to streaming and content creation in general, and I’ve actually been putting this off for a while. Other parts of the home lab kept eating my spare time. Okay, okay – a few things may have broken in the Windows install, because Microsoft loves to throw janky curveballs. It’s tradition, though.
Tradition, or maybe just gremlin chaos management.