r/selfhosted u/No-Raccoon-1993 1 В Ubersetzen You are all a bunch of sick freaks stumbled onto this subreddit looking for tips on running a basic Plex server, and holy shit, you people are insane. Ins

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u/No-Raccoon-1993 1 В
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You are all a bunch of sick freaks
stumbled onto this subreddit looking for tips on running a basic Plex server, and holy
shit, you people are insane. Instead of finding normal humans, find complete psychos
debating ZFS configurations like they're discussing fine wine. yes, this RAIDZ2 has
subtle notes of data integrity.” You are all a bunch of sick vitamin deficient freaks.
actually work with and manage multiple Kubernetes, mission critical infrastructure
that actually matters. spend my entire day working with containerised applications,
and what find when load up Reddit? Ansible playbook writing maniacs trying to
automate their light switches. You are all a bunch of sick freaks who probably dream in
YAML and wake up in cold sweats wondering if you forgot to enable that cron job
The worst part is how you enable each other. "Hey guys, just finished my basic home
automation setup", and then you post a system diagram that looks like the blueprint
for a nuclear reactor. Fourteen Docker containers just to manage a suite of ‘internet
of things connected shitware. You celebrate each others descent into madness with
vomit inducing comments like "Nice setup! Have you considered adding Prometheus
monitoring?" You are all a bunch of sick freaks, you make me ill.
And the money you guys must spaff away... you've somehow convinced yourself that
spending thousands on enterprise server equipment from 2012 is justified as it was
originally the cost. And then you refer to it as “your little setup". this? Just my
Dual mirrored RAID 10 arrays with triple redundant UPS and backup diesel generator
that kicks in if the power flickrs for more than 3 milliseconds. You know, for my Linux
ISO collection" Meanwhile your electricity meter spins so fast it could probably generat
its own electricity. You are all a bunch of sick freaks, and you need help.
take solace in imagining what your home lives are like, laugh as imagine your
families, having to sit through dinner listening to you explain why running Pi-hole with
Unbound is superior to forwarding to Cloudflare. bet your kids start crying when you
mention DNS-over-HTTPS. Your wife just stares at you now, especially since you've
replaced all your family photos with grafana dashboards.
imagine you boiling over when when the women you made vows to asks "why can't
we just back to using when your precious self-hosted photo library goes
down during your third Photoprism upgrade this week. They completely ignore your
‘impressive’ (97% lol) uptime statistics and offsite backups. You are all a bunch of sick
freaks, and your loved ones are losing hope.
No, you don't need Kubernetes or 10gig network switches or rack. You don't
need any of these increasingly abstract layers of complexity that exist only to solve
the problems created your previous solutions. Your simple file server didn't need
containers, those containers didn't need orchestration, that orchestration didn't need
a service mesh, Yet here you are, staring at 10,000 lines of YAML, wondering if maybe
just one more helm chart would finally make it all perfect. But know you'll keep adding
more, because you're all just a bunch of sick freaks.
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