[Schwan]

I had a debian root server for years;

Did i do anything specific relevant on it which would have required it? Nope.

But boy did i learn things.

If not us as Software Engineers / Tech people, should have something like a home lab?

I have setup a k8s cluster at home; Do i need it? Nope for sure not; Is it nice? Is it running smoothly? Did i learn things? Is it interesting to use and fun? Does it help that it does run 24/7? yes, yes yes and yes.

When i have my own house, i do plan to centralize everything in it in one rack somewhere nice, optic fiber in every relevant room, vlan, backup server/nas etc. Alone something like this does require quite a lot of hardware.

And i think its very nice to have vlan capabilities to seperate that one iot device from the rest of my network.