I'm definitely a homelabber now.

I've recently learned that my husband was impressed by my hard drive replacement the other weekend, which is pretty cool. It was not a difficult thing to do, except for the screw placement thing I already complained about (and at length, offline), but it did take me a number or hours and it seems to be fairly wizardy to non-computer people. Personally it's more that I always felt like kind of an idiot for not knowing more about this stuff since computers impact us all so much, every day, so I'm glad to have expanded my skills. The computer itself is a prebuilt computer from Cyberpower that my siblings gifted to my father and he used for his work for five or six years. It was not working well anymore, so he replaced it, but he didn't want to get rid of it so he kept it, and was perfectly happy to give it to me. I installed LInux Mint and some other stuff on it but it kept crashing, the hard drive issues became apparent when I learned how to check for that, and so I replaced it. I'm…