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Another addiction | |
2019.01.19 14:58:19 CET | |
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Last time I posted about my food addiction, now I have to | |
admit another one: I pile up too much used and old | |
equipment, cables and unnecessary cruft. | |
I took some time this week to clean the server rack I keep | |
in my home office. I had not cleaned the insides of the | |
rack since I installed it, so there was plenty of dust to | |
remove. I took the opportunity to reorganize the trays, | |
servers and cabling. | |
I removed everything I wasn't using: the broken FreeNAS | |
Mini, a Dell workstation, two RaspberryPi's and | |
consequently a network switch. | |
Looking at everything I have but am not using (laptops, | |
servers, workstations, Pis) I can't help but feel | |
overloaded and wish to get rid of them. On the other hand, | |
I find it very hard to let go of things - specially | |
because some do have a financial value (besides the | |
emotional one), but I wouldn't be able to sell them. | |
How do you handle the ever growing pile of old stuff at | |
your place? Do you have any financial or emotional | |
attachment to this old equipment? |