Flagged? I guess some people don't have a sense of humour. I don't know about anyone else, but I got a good chuckle or two out of that post. I don't think it was 100% (or even 60%) serious.
I was taking a break from converting and configuring my home assistant dashboards in yaml instead of UI and stumbled upon this and had a good laugh.
I don't use containers for anything, I'm just using ha core on an Arch install on an odroid h4 that uses less than 10W. The machine itself is also my NAS (if you want to call it that) using a single 4TB m.2 nvme. It also hosts my private git repos too. I think I'm content with this.
They're not putting a bunch of resources into home networks because they're bad at it, they're doing it because it's fun.
My home network is a cable modem and an integrated router/AP, because all I care about is that it's good enough. Yet, I'm honestly contemplating buying an old Itanium server from a liquidator near me, not because I'm going to use it as a server, but because I'd like to try my hand at IA-64 assembly language, and it would be more fun to do it on the real hardware than an emulator.
No one going to run any IA-64 instructions I write, but I want to do it for the fun of it. If someone buys that same server to run their home automation system, it would be no different.
Based on a career in IT, random dev con encounters, and enough time spent in the HN comment section over years to qualify me for several mental health diagnosis, I'm guessing very little of this is tongue in cheek. I can name 4 ex-coworkers that if shown this would react very negatively because several aspects of their home life are being called out directly.
He's so right. ZFS is difficult. Glad I switched to Ceph a while back. No more unhappy misses when I need to take one of the nodes down for maintenance and she can't watch her favorite shows.
Also that helm stuff. Everyone knows that Timoni is the newer and better alternative, hell, it even saves you from writing YAML and you can do it in the far superior CUE language.
Last thing, speaking of having dinner with some friends, last time one of them started talking about having bought a Raspberry PI for 100 quid. I think he was having a piss at me, just buy a [tinyMiniMicro](https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...)
^ above definitely is tongue in cheek and sadly also a bit true
My counter-sicko accusation is that there's a lot of people who really love scolding & scorning people using good powerful capable competent tools, that they will be able to harness & use in other contexts, over time.
The people against doing big bold things are far more vocal, far more prevalent, far more noticeable to me. Their threads spawn and attracts all conversation to it, obliterating chances for engaged interested hopeful technologists to share interest & chat.
After an afternoon pointlessly dicking around with the ansible I use at home, it was fun and I agree to wholeheartedly.
To defend myself, the rack is unplugged, empty and in the garage, while I just have a little mini pc running everything. No more massive rack servers for me.
The ansible lives on, of course.
How do you unflag? This deserves to be read by everyone
For people who do IT infrastructure at work, playing at home with infra built ground-up can be educational.
Like they can't get from inheriting massive piles of CIO enterprise purchasing misadventures at work, where they're not allowed to experiment, break, and rethink as much.
looks at my little Pi 4 running LibreElec with my media library on it so my wife can watch Landman and my Pi Zero 2 W I carry on a lanyard that's got my git server on it just running PiOS Lite and laughs in old man
