On: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?

[hddherman]

Sorry to hear about that.

I agree that it's easy to dismiss a lot of ideas like this, and the fact that there's so many people out there working on all these ideas can seem a bit daunting.

What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_. Yeah, sure, other solutions exist, but then I'd be trading more money for less fun, and that's not... fun.

I hope that you can get your spark back. It all depends on external factors and life events as well and with those I cannot help, but don't lose hope.

[snerbles → hddherman]

> What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_.

Thank you for articulating it this way. It's too easy for nihilism to bleed over into hobbies and pastimes.

[pxtail → hddherman]

Thank you for kind words man, I appreciate it a lot