I will start first
- I didn’t notice my diy NAS motherboard had Pci-E Gen 2.0 (old gen) before buying it. It’s not a great limitation (still 500MB/s) for the two spinning disks I have on it, but it’d be if I will decide to switch to SSDs
- I cheaped out on the PSU. I bought another one without waiting for that crap to burn down so I eventually spent more
- I often break the software. Sometimes I kill the OS or mess with some BTRFS pools
Sometimes I just feel not adequate for it. Does this kind of things happen to you too?
All the time. Why have a home lab if you aren’t going to fuck things up? :)
Better it happens in the home lab than at work!!
doing a hard delete of all my docker containers by accident was a fun mistake I made
Yes. Anyone who says otherwise is a goddamn liar.
Getting started with openwrt there were a few times i fucked the config so badly the only resolution was to nuke from orbit and start from scratch
Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn’t good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.
Breaking things and learning how to fix them is a big part of owning a home lab. It can be frustrating but the learning experience is worth it