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> A home lab was generally seen as something to experiment with and learn something from.

It looks to me that rolling your own media center is something to experiment with and learn something from.

They mentioned one aspect of their setup and you're the one assuming that's all they have.

Not to mention even if it was just a Plex server, that still meets your criteria.

I started my own homelab like this, and still learned from day 1.

It grew over time to serve many purposes, has seen many stopped/failed attempts, has had many lives (I mean, recreate from scratch to learn X, Y or Z).

There's not a particular day or a particular addition or a particular level of complexity when it became a homelab, I think of it as such from day 1.

you don't need to spend money to have a homelab. you can do it all using VMs in your personal device (laptop/desktop) just fine