Good luck!

I currently have the exact same question in my head. I think I’ll go the following route: Install opensense in a VM on my Proxmox host (it has 2 NICs) and just put my lab stuff behind it in it’s own lan. Everything connects to the router via firewall.

Benefits:

• The rest of the lan (e.g. partner’s devices) do not rely on my firewall working
• I don’t need to buy anything, I can switch to bare metal later if I need to and have figured out what exactly I need

Sounds interesting, thanks!

I’m not really up to date on homelabbing hardware, but I’m surprised to see how much the whole thing is centered around raspis given how expensive they are for their relatively low capacities. Possibility of offgriding your homelab is an interesting project but not what I’d center this “revolution” around given most homelabs stay, well, home.

DIY 10" racks for second hand mini PCs would interest me way more but looking at the YouTuber’s big lab racks affordability doesn’t seem to be much of a factor.

I think the best thing of reddit is them having so many actually active niche subreddits. Many people saying Lemmy doesn’t need to grow don’t seem to care much about that which surprises me a bit.