Mother of God, why make this comment? It’s the poster’s setup and they are happy with it. What possible value could denigrating it do? The ol’ ball coach breakin’ em down to build em up shtick is gone and I don’t miss it.

Didn't mean it that way - and for that I apologize. I was just expecting a lot more since it was on the front page.

No worries Sarge and thanks for keeping the kids alive out there.

It's a pleasure, Tom! May I call you Tom?

Can't hurt.

I too was wondering what made this a homelab. I appreciate the setup, but from the word lab I was expecting at least an oscilloscope. That being said it has cool features I hadn't known about like the image storing system and at home LLM support.

Deeply suspect it has to do with being in the authors home.

It feels like day 2 after you’ve received the new hard drives. It’s nice, modern enough but still a pretty bog standard home machine, not really “homelab” territory yet.

Why do we need to gatekeep “homelab”?

Terms making defined sense aid in conversation.

Why do you need to dilute the term? There is nothing wrong with your NAS running 3 apps that you press update once a year not being called "homelab" but just "a NAS"

> Why do you need to dilute the term?

Nobody is diluting anything. This person posted the setup they have in their home. It’s their homelab.

It’s not diluting any terms for them to call it that. Their setup is just as much a homelab as somebody else’s 48U rack.

It’s just a dick move, and against the rules of the site, to see somebody’s earnest post about their tech setup and post a shallow dismissal about how their setup isn’t deserving of your imagined barrier to entry.

They are not researching anything. They just want to have few things running.

The whole idea of homelab (regardless of size) is learning first.

He just have home server. It's okay to call it that

Oh. Now the imaginary gate is “research”?

Is the average person really using Tailscale? This seems plenty deep enough

Quit whining, you know damn well the bar for a typical "Show HN" has been raised to the point of being irrelevant these days, this post is a perfect example. This is not a home lab.

I'm happy for the OP and that it works for him. That said:

The equivalent of Joe Bloggs installing Linux onto an old laptop is neither curious nor interesting, let's not pretend it is because feelings.

This isn't a Show HN, and also I think you mean "lowered" given the tone of your post.

It's also been on the front page for most of the day on its own merits. It's clear you don't like the article. The guidelines are clear that you're expected to either engage constructively or just move along.

I think if you’re playing around with apps & Tailscale on your NAS, it’s a homelab.

Exactly. And I don't mind this being on the HN front page, but I'd like to see some proper Homelab setups here. Maybe someone can post the coolest setup they've seen so far?

> This is extremely light

I'm curious about its power consumption on idle, average use, and peak.

Of typical homelabs that are posted and discussed.

The online activity of the homelab community leans towards those who treat it as an enjoyable hobby as opposed to a pragmatic solution.

I'm on the other side of the spectrum. Devops is (at best) a neutral activity; I personally do it because I strongly dislike companies being able to do a rug-pull. I don't think you'll see setups like mine too often, as there isn't anything to brag about or to show off.