you haven’t seen the state of my server have you

For a while I was doing the work from home thing, and I found it hilarious that I’d be sitting in the same chair and it’d be like “CLOSE THE LAPTOP OF WORK! OPEN THE LAPTOP OF PLAY!”

This is way too accurate. With a buddy I even have what our wifes call playdates, where we are messing around with proxmox, containers and linux distros. We both have some old poweredge servers, laptops, raspberry pies and old phones to mess around with. Nothing useful has come out of that so far, although we’re preparing a lemmy and mastodon instance, so we’re getting there.

Sometimes I’m supposed to be working on bad servers, but I’m actually remoted home working on good servers.

I’d expect the work servers to be better because I can’t afford to spend thousands per server, but maybe I’m just spoiled with regards to work hardware.