I think of it like my dad’s generation being able to work on their cars right down to rebuilding the engine, whether out of necessity or purely for the fun of it. Their wives’ attitudes toward those pastimes were pretty similar too.
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puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I feel like homelabs are our generations’ model train nerd hobby equivalent. I get so much joy in being able to connect the containers and hardware and doing for myself what I was paying others for via subscription.
drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So I even mask my autism like my old man?
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Maybe if the model trains could actually bring in your groceries and mow your lawn they’d be comparable. Granted, self-hosted software can’t do those exact things either, but it can do an awful lot of the digital stuff that’s part of our lives now which often takes up just as much time and effort if not more. Model trains are a banger hobby, but homelabbing can easily be more than just a hobby, it’s deeply practical too, and I’d argue it’s actually a necessity for establishing personal digital sovereignty and privacy going forward.
kossa@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’d argue that “more practical” hobbies are just the zeitgeist.
I don’t know anybody my age with a garden with only “beautiful flowers”. Everybody tries to grow some vegetables, something practical. Which my mother did never understand, she had this big ass garden where you could eat nothing. It is a beautiful garden, granted, but “only” for the looks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Joy and utility.
Plus, there’s something for everyone.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 month ago As a kid I always thought the basement model train set ups were cool. Then as I grew into a young man, I thought it was kind of weird that some grandpa had a train set in his basement he played with. Then as I got older, it started making more sense to me. I don’t have a train set in my basement, but selfhosting I would imagine, is along the same lines at least for me.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It is. Do you know how I know? It pisses off my wife to no end the ridiculous amount of time I spend testing services to self-host 🤣
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ahhhh the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I don’t have those issues, so I’m free to run amuck as I please.
magnue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I kind of barely use mine it just hangs around in the background hosting services but I just love knowing it’s running and accessible anywhere.
Such a nice way to put it. I totally agree. My Popa had a model trainset and I was fascinated with it as a boy. I still think they are really cool. Same energy as homelabbing