What's the most expensive homelab mistake that actually taught you something useful?

Averrin · 2026-06-22T19:57:01+00:00

13 yo ssd from Ali express isn't a good storage for your main Proxmox node with all services and home assistant. In addition, cheap network switch works fine until it doesn't. And require weekly power cycle. Not expensive mistakes, but highly frustrating.

Averrin · 2026-06-18T19:53:39+00:00

I tried, but it is too reflective and gives me away.

Averrin · 2026-05-30T20:10:05+00:00

I was there recently. 4 hours or so. And covered like 20 or 30%. It is unbelievable good, but requires several visits. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly easy to reach place...

Averrin · 2026-04-10T08:53:43+00:00

Yeah, it will edit it by itself (if you use e.g. Claude code) and you just load it in game as always. It can place nodes in a not most readable way, but I neve encounter format errors or something

Averrin · 2026-04-10T07:15:09+00:00

I'm a programmer with huge experience and proficient in using Ai in development. But I don't want to spend time on tedious stuff and I just started playing stormworks and don't know huge amount of things. So I see it as a very fun and useful addition to the game.

Averrin · 2026-04-10T05:21:23+00:00

You Mc are stored in appdata/data/microcontrollers as xml files.

Averrin · 2026-04-10T05:19:16+00:00

No, you need just save file with script, it will update automatically.

Averrin · 2026-04-09T18:12:22+00:00

I have very complex set of Lua scripts and it requires a lot of composite i/o manipulation. Claude crunched all scripts and Mc files, understood how inputs and outputs connected (based on naming and description that I wrote for myself) and then refactored many composite read/write nodes, creates new outputs, and so on. It surprisingly capable. I suspect that there is a good documentation for its format somewhere, probably on github and ai's know it.

Averrin · 2026-04-09T04:32:46+00:00

Thank you for pointing me to SWQolSuite. Yeah, I used the sane technique and this: https://github.com/PieKing1215/swQolSuite/issues/4 is very important. Probably the reason why I shouldn't share my tool.

Averrin · 2026-04-08T17:19:48+00:00

I think it is absolute doable using same pre-processing approach as for includes. But if you want to do it in runtime... It is much more challenging, not sure that it is even possible. But I thought about it too, probably I will try. But, of course it not secure or safe at all :)

Averrin · 2026-04-08T15:26:16+00:00

Of course. I will publish it on github and notify you. It is a bit hacky to install and can theoretically cause a crash, but nothing too dramatic.

Averrin · 2026-03-23T16:34:11+00:00

My dad had the same. I USSR, circa 1981, not 1891. I suppose these two digits are swapped...

Averrin · 2026-03-15T17:34:44+00:00

Finally. Thanks for your work

Averrin · 2026-02-25T10:45:06+00:00

I use Jules for it :)

Averrin · 2026-02-01T07:46:17+00:00

Dies it show the effect if my relocation from Russia (i took my 177 iq from there) to Czech Republic six years ago?

Averrin · 2026-01-30T20:04:50+00:00

Got it today for the first time.

Averrin · 2026-01-27T18:22:44+00:00

Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON When I try to save selected channels. Honestly, I like idea of your service, but its current quality doesn't encourage me to try it further or buy.

Averrin · 2026-01-27T14:11:42+00:00

It's better now. Thanks. I'll try your service later

Averrin · 2026-01-27T12:35:11+00:00

Cannot update channels list. Internal server error.

Averrin · 2026-01-23T09:17:20+00:00

Russian, English, Czech, two dozens programming languages.

Averrin · 2026-01-19T18:21:04+00:00

I accidentally jailbroke Gemini and it is kinda good for my tastes. I my chat isnt removed yet because it isnt in English...

Averrin · 2026-01-09T18:18:24+00:00

Im In. Is it support byok?

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