--------------------------------------------
        Another addiction
        2019.01.19 14:58:19 CET
        --------------------------------------------
       
        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?