Old PoE switch? I have some 3750s that don't see regular action because they're loud, hot, and powerhungry

used hardware and that is cheap any day of the year

No black friday deals on electricity costs sadly

I work in a datacenter and somehow our stuff keeps working in 100f+ temps with humidity that makes the data hall feel like a swamp in the summer and shredded moths in the heatsinks and fans so you're probably okay

It's homelab, do any of us actually have hardware that isn't being underutilized?

I wanna stand up a netware server at some point but it's also kind of intimidating as someone over a decade younger than netware lol.

Unironically the fact that there aren't far more computer museums than there are now is a travesty

People here are increasingly forgetting that it's homeLAB not homePROD. A lab is for learning and experimentation, power efficiency isn't really an issue as long as you're learning something and having fun...