Sooooo felt. I have been sitting here scrutinizing everry U in my 12U rack - and the cents in my bank account - to built a homelab to be fully and entirely self-sovereign. Goal is to literally live fully selfhosted - with little to no reliance on SaaS. x) It's big fun, also big annoying.

And then I go to work and see how people manually VPN (OpenVPN) and then RDP into Windows Servers to set a DNS record on the Domain Controller and I am like, bruh. XD

Though my favorite is our "SRE". We run Grafana with OnCall. But the actual workflow of resolving incidents is often calling a customer, asking them to pop a TeamViewer QS and then do stuff that way. It's hilarious - and embaressing.

Or, possibly my favorite, is that the chef's kid was to buy servers for our customer - and he bought an Intel one. Why? Because it had hot-swap fans. Yes, it was 2x more than the equivalent EPYC, and it was ment as a Hyper-V host so there'd have been gains in MT perf compared to Intel's ST perf. But nooooo can't hotswap the fans there! XD

Meanwhile I am just hanging out in the Radxa Discord, working towards dkms drivers for npu/vpu/gpu and just hoping I get to use this low-level knowledge some day - between the kernel, kubernetes, Podman/Docker (and many of the internals like CSI, CNI, container runtimes) and semiautomation - for something epic.

I mean last task was literally going to a client to run virus scans because they got a little scared. Hours of literally doing nothing and almost falling asleep _at_ the customers office...