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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?