People buy home servers? They don't just find them lying about and say to themselves "I'll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running"?

Huh.

Pssh. You bought your home server instead of just assembling it from a box of scraps you had lying around?

On a related note, is Serial Experiments: Lain actually available to watch anywhere, or would I have to take to the high seas?

"Finally... Now I can compile Firefox and use it in the same afternoon."

Home servers are a very valid solution to a whole new series of modern problems.

I like the detail of her ditching the sweater due to the heat of all the computers.

My home server is just my old android device, cleaner than any of your weird stuff

Cyberia Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbi4N6NGn4

If you ever wondered why The Matrix tied EDM to the Hackerscene, blame this song

Homeserver in this economy?

She got another Stuffed bear! Thanks linux!

Eh, just use what you have lying around. My first was my kiddos beat to shit school Thinkpad X230 (figured it was indestructible, wrong, but it still goes, so sorta, with dings, got 'em another cleaner one which still gets used long after school) renewed with Debian. (still a backup, much power saving virtue to laptops as home servers).

These days it's just a bunch of podman services (that I can literally drag and drop) on immutable OSs across a few devices, some of which are on all the time (and low power, laptops with gluetun proxies, SearxNG, etc). Some higher power, Immich etc. on the desktop, with shit tons of storage (pre idiocy), that gets turned on for gaming weekly or yeah, local LLM experimentation. I get ppl wanting to play with local servers, more power (heh) to them, hope you've got solar and batteries.

Suppose I was just arguing against the justified purchase premise, or at least the less considered version. If all you have now is a phone, have at it. But consider old (especially business class) laptops. Who doesn't love built in battery power supply and easy serviceability.

Good luck OP.

I have high availability that requires 2.5x the maintenance. My CPUs draw 0.1-0.6 times the electricity and I have 10 of them. My base OS is more secure but my VM OSes pull from repos in 5 sanctioned countries. I don't have to pay for tokens because I self-host my own LLMs using 4 rtx5090s and 256GB of RAM (that I purchased in summer 2026).

Totally worth it.

this is not realistic in the current economy 😭

Cheaper to rent a decent vps than to pay for the electricity for some old slug of a machine in your house in this economy

Disagree, more like the opposite. Now all my machines can be managed with portable scripts that handle common tasks. When I used windows I didn't even bother scripting usually because it's a shit show. And fuck powershell before anyone says "it's totally not that bad despite the non standard... Practically everything"

serial experiments lain?

Needs penguin teddy in window in second panel

I'm not going to say that I don't have a server-collection problem, but that problem did put me on a good career path, so at least I have that going for me.

Access to knowledge and ability to maintain ownership gives you freedom, confidence, and a desire to expand.

I'm reporting this post because I'm in it and don't like it

This is what I'm drooling over currently:

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-n5-max-ai-nas

Back then I used to think this was just a funny meme.

It's reality now.

This is, if not from Real Life Comics, very reminiscent of it.

You could easily switch the panels and show Windows 11 hardware requirements Vs Linux

Curious. I must be a filthy casual with the one desktop PC. There is at least one other PC here, but it's out of action.

It could do with plugging in at some point to see if it still works, but I see no benefit in making that permanent.

Purchase? I just kept my old toaster around and ran a file server on it.

Don't care about Linux, but I love Lain.