I have been cobbling along bits and pieces of a home lab over the last 18 years or so, and didn’t really know it for the longest time. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew I wanted to achieve something, and set out to figuring out how to do exactly that.
That has led me down countless rabbit holes, on Reddit and numerous online forums.
I’m finally at a point with a small side project, something to accomplish a specific goal (I’m not ready to share what that is just yet), and today I discovered that I don’t need to dump any money into it right now. I have everything I need to get started, right here at home.
That includes a spare network switch and a few empty drives that I thought were closer to retirement than they actually are. I definitely spent a good chunk of time inventorying my drives, which inevitably found me going down memory lane – to that one time when using Ubuntu + Gnome and I stumbled upon the best theme pack. It’s legit one that competes pretty strongly with something I’m using on one of my machines today.
I woke up this morning ready to dive into a fresh Ubuntu server install, and I’m wrapping it up by tidying up my side project’s to-do list and crossing a few items off of it already.