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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally any hobby I have seriously messed with.

Although- racecars was never cheap.

My homelab started off pretty cheap. But, at this point, I am quite certain I have a few thousand bucks worth of hardware. Shit- I have two thousand bucks in just HDDs, SSDs/NVMes...

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Homelab for me too. Started off with a repurposed gaming PC and exploded into multiple hosts, tons of drives, and an itch to keep expanding

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yea....

I'm up to over 140T of storage,

I have a FULLY loaded r730XD, 256G of ram, all drive bays filled. All PCIe LANES used. (ie, lots of bifurcation).

I have a proxmox cluster consisting of it, a few SFFs, and a couple MFFs. 10G connectivity for everything but the micros.

Have a ceph cluster. Have a kubernetes cluster. Have iBGP routing in place, multiple firewalls.

I have a bit of everything here. Its a fun hobby.

Oh, and don't forget, a 20kwh entire home UPS / battery backup, with another 2.4kwh dedicated to the server rack.