[slondr]

For corporate environments sure, for my home lab that seems like overkill

[jcrawfordor]

SSH is not overkill, it is the default. There are some narrow circumstances where you might have a good reason to use telnet in 2023, but they are edge cases related to legacy hardware and possibly occasionally the desire for easy on-path interception. It is very unlikely that you have a good reason to not just use SSH. Even if you care nothing about the security advantages, SSH has more consistent and better-defined behavior around 8-bit data, and offers far more features.

[riffic]

first of all, I do not see your home "lab" and anyone else's home LAN to be synonymous as a concept.

Franky, do what you want in your lab.

I would urge you or anyone else to assume there's already a compromised device on your home network.

[genewitch]

The compromised device is inside the house!