When I first got into homelabbing as a hobby, I built a massively overpowered server because I was highly ambitious.it mostly just drew power for projects that didn’t require all the horsepower.

A decade later, I like NUCs and Pis and the like because they’re tiny,low-power, and easy to hide. Then again, I don’t have nearly as much time and drive for offhand projects as I get older, so who knows what a younger me would have decided with the contemporary landscape of hardware available to us today.