Why is everyone 'Home Labbing'???

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• RH

  @rhadiem · 1 year ago

  Home lab is a protest against cloud computing.  Early PC's were all "home labs".

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• JO

  @joemccall8991 · 1 year ago

  Why is everyone 'Home Labbing'??? Well, you and Network Chuck and Techno Tim and Hardware Haven keep telling me I have to home lab or I'm a loser. Duh.

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• TR

  @Traumatree · 1 year ago

  Home labbing is the FUN way to learn stuff in a few days instead of 1 term at college or uni - and much cheaper too!  I miss homebrew club.

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• TE

  @TechnoTim · 1 year ago

  Thanks for letting me be a part of this awesome video!

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• GA

  @garthkey · 1 year ago

  I'm homelabing because I don't think Google,Amazon, etc. Has great intentions with my information

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• JI

  @Jims-Garage · 1 year ago

  Home Labbers Assemble!

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• SO

  @somechannel2461 · 1 year ago

  basically it is how workers back in days use to buy saws, hammers, nails, workbenches BUT in IT field

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• LA

  @LAWRENCESYSTEMS · 1 year ago

  Great video, thanks for including me

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• MR

  @Mr76Pontiac · 1 year ago

  I got into Home Labbing waaaaaaay back in the late 90s, early 2000s. &nbsp;We&apos;re talking back when Pentiums of whatever brand was there. &nbsp;The reason was simple. &nbsp;I&apos;d want to run game servers on one computer, while I played the game on my &quot;main rig&quot; of the time. &nbsp;Then file sharing across the rest of the house where I&apos;d run a PC with a phat multi-gigabyte drive and share files with all the other computers in the house. &nbsp;Running mIRC on one machine to act as a channel admin bot while I &quot;logged off&quot; my main machine. &nbsp;Then I started to work for a computer shop and that dealt with learning Linux to a small degree, and learned a little bit about virtualization. &nbsp;I&apos;d run small web servers, and applications, and file servers and all that kinda stuff on &quot;retired from gaming&quot; systems after upgrading.<br><br>I now run a 3-server set of retired server grade hardware, amounting to about 600gig of RAM, 104 threads worth of CPU, couple tens of TBs of drive space, and so on. &nbsp;At home. &nbsp;Running in my basement. &nbsp;Locked down and barely exposed to the internet.<br><br>I have a dedicated PC for my programming machine, obviously my main gaming rig, two gaming laptops, my wife has her own set of machines, my kids have their own gaming machines.<br><br>If I train them right, my two dogs and cat would have their own machines. &nbsp;The rabbits don&apos;t show any interest in tech.<br><br>But seriously, having the 3-server set, it&apos;s fantastic. &nbsp;Proxmox on the machines, and when I need a &apos;Nix machine up and going, 20 minutes later, done (With all the patching and downloading, etc).

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• PO

  @Polarzbek · 1 year ago

  Omg you added all my favorite tech YouTubers in one video! Thanks Brett!!

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• LE

  @LeatheryTendons · 3 weeks ago

  Because it makes me happy

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• SA

  @Sahta99 · 1 year ago

  Love the homelab YouTube creator community. No jealousy, just support and good fun

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