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.
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.
Believe it or not, self-hosting! I went from renting a VPS for $40 a month, to purchasing an entire $150 machine at home, plus $50 or so in additional storage, plus a $20 a month VPS solely to bypass NAT restrictions… plus a few hundred dollars more when I first started, because I cheaped out on components and managed to brick not one, but two Intel BIOSes trying to update them.
Keep at it. My self-hosting passion is what eventually got me into a successful career.
Don’t worry about that one! I’ve been working in digital for about ten years already, self-hosting is a nice side gig I have for my own amusement
Out of curiosity, what career did you land in?
DevOps.
and the power cost from old inefficient enterprise hardware