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This is single-handedly the weirdest blog I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s post after post after post after post showing tens and tens of thousands of dollars equipment and… Nothing else. It’s like hardware porn. You get no sense of who this person is and in fact he begins to sound like an advertisement. There are no furnishings in the house that you can see. The backyard sometimes has trees and sometimes doesn’t. I literally don’t think this person is real.


Huh?

I quickly scrolled through and he does mention a move which could explain the tree change.

This is a pretty generic homelab, there's communities built around the hobby on reddit or lemmy.

It's 10k+ of equipement at retail but people in IT often get inside deals on old equipment that's being upgraded.


Right, it took me reading four or five entries before I started to notice that it was really not normal.

And every single post is about an expensive new hardware purchase. Not just computers. Two motorcycles. A generator. Another generator. Solar panels (with accompanying drone footage of the overhead view). And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on.

It looks like guerrilla marketing aimed at nerds and tinkerers to me.


>And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on.

Uhh, where?

No I don't...

Man I just like cool things :(


Yep pretty much, I got it all used and over the span of 10+ years. Selling old stuff to fund new stuff, and a fair amount of NFR stuff from vendors


Odd comment

Where have I really shown the inside of my house? I purposefully don't show the inside of my house as much as possible, because that's weird

There has always been trees, from after about 2 months after I moved in 3+ years ago. Which posts even has no trees?




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