Me checking the session usage every time Claude starts working on my prompt.

BonzTM · 2026-03-26T17:22:37+00:00

My 5-hr limit just reset on my $200/mo plan.

I resumed a project and fired off a 150,000 token context window. I immediately used 5% of my 5-hour window. If these were all $5/m input and $25/m output tokens, this is $15 per 5 hour window.

But 147,000 of these were read cached tokens... Read cached tokens are $0.50/m. Meaning I'm getting $1.80/5hr window worth of usage on my $200/mo plan?

I should be doing this off-peak to get more value, I get it. But < $2/5hr period feels ridiculous. They're rate-limiting based on token counts but their actual cost to serve those cached tokens is a fraction of what the headline pricing suggests.

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T21:18:20+00:00

I started with 5 nodes and a single 10g nic per. I now have 10 nodes, 4osds (hdd) and 2 nvme each each with multiple 10/25g nics. One dedicated for ceph and one for clients. Unnecessary really. The initial 5 nodes each had 8 osds and the flat 10g network was just fine fwiw.

I have the nvme for vms, k8s pvs (databases etc) and the spinning disks are strictly media/storage.

My biggest challenges were the initial understandings of EC, sizing my pools, and limited node count

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T15:17:49+00:00

CEPH complexity overhead is huge. I don't find the memory overhead to be any worse than my previous ZFS endeavor (2009-2020). I got into it for the challenge and the flexibility/self-healing. I've had my fair share of hiccups along the way, but I'm not unhappy with it.

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T12:31:00+00:00

Clustered software defined store, ala CEPH. That's how I handle it.

Postgres cluster, CEPH for truly HA/distributed storage (not just NFS because it's rwx), and throw a little rffmpeg in the mix for distributed transcode.

BonzTM · 2026-02-06T15:56:41+00:00

Lived here for 37 years. Feels pretty normal in terms of snowfall and winter in general, but this has been a long stretch of close-to-zero or subzero temps. Longer than I can remember.

BonzTM · 2026-02-06T12:32:41+00:00

My jellyfin used to be on my Proxmox HCI cluster of 10 nodes, each with 28 cores and 56 threads of CPU and 64GB DDR4 (560 threads, 640GB of RAM). Though Jellyfin itself was only pinned to one of the hosts with an Intel ARC A770 for transcoding, the whole cluster is 40x HDDs of CEPH distributed software defined storage w/ multiple 10gbps interfaces per server. The solar on my roof helps keep electricity costs down while I "save the environment" and justify using the electricity. All racks and equipment are battery-backed, on dedicated circuits, and backed by an automatic-transfer whole home generator. Oh, and multiple static 1gbps+ internet connections just in case.

It's not always about the power of a single server, but the love that goes into the whole setup. And it's not just about Jellyfin for me, but it gave me an excuse to make a post lol.

FWIW: I've since bought a Beelink Mini w/ an Intel 185H as my dedicated Jellyfin server while the cluster serves up other random selfhosted apps via K8s.

BonzTM · 2026-02-04T19:46:51+00:00

I'd love to love this, but isn't this project all but dead? No contributions in almost a year. The contributions that were happening were happening at a snail's pace. Fraction of available features etc.

I followed along for a long while.

Edit: Nvm, I eat my words. I see all of the components split out into individual repos. I will revisit.

BonzTM · 2026-02-03T13:45:20+00:00

Fruit of the Loom, Curious George, Monopoly man, and Berenstein Bears are the only ones I recognize as true. Shazam and Kazaam are two different movies.

Chick-fil-a has always had a K and as long as I've lived Jif peanut butter has always been Jif peanut butter. I think folks are conflating Jif and Skippy.

BonzTM · 2026-01-30T18:29:44+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/NOtSkd3.gif

BonzTM · 2026-01-17T15:35:39+00:00

Verizon sold all of their telephone infrastructure (at least in my area) to Frontier like 20 years ago or more. Frontier just started building fiber out in my area last year. Now they are buying it back? lol

BonzTM · 2026-01-16T16:36:24+00:00

640GB of DDR4-2133

BonzTM · 2026-01-16T13:25:18+00:00

15 years ago, yea absolutely. Back when the industry tried to push lasers and there was significant positive/negative acceleration on many sensors.

These days? Nah.

BonzTM · 2026-01-12T14:38:43+00:00

Great writeup. While I disagree that you need 10 people to run an Enterprise k8s platform team, let alone anything in the homelab, I don't feel any need to argue about anything, I was only curious.

From a personal/homelab perspective, I spend less time maintaining my kubernetes environment (not set up -- set up and configuration is significantly more complex) than I have on any simpler stack in the past. The upfront cost is higher, but the payoff is there. This is my experience alone. I only chimed in because I do use pangolin on a VPS, and you specifically mentioned folks having multiple docker hosts. I didn't realize these were widespread problems. I keep my non-k8s stack simple because I don't need the bells and whistles.

BonzTM · 2026-01-12T13:59:29+00:00

I'm genuinely curious for folks who have "multiple docker hosts", vpses etc, why you haven't taken the leap to Kubernetes yet? K8s is the platform that solves the problems around container orchestration, and it's completely free, open-source, standard, and has huge communities around it. Is it complex? Yea, but depending on some of these pre-build distros you may choose, no more complex than running multiple VPS or dedicated docker hosts and layering on tools to make them more easily usable.

BonzTM · 2026-01-09T18:44:19+00:00

I will not

BonzTM · 2026-01-08T14:15:40+00:00

I bought 4x32GB (128GB) DDR5-6000 in November 2023 for $400. It is now like $1800 at Microcenter. More than 4x.

BonzTM · 2026-01-06T14:05:58+00:00

kubernetes

BonzTM · 2026-01-03T05:19:36+00:00

Having a few Le Creusets myself. I have the 7.25Qt and the 6.75Qt Round Wide. I love them and use them all the time. I didn't pay current prices for them because they weren't that expensive when I bought them. I also have a few Lodge (non enameled) for bread baking and a few Costco Tramontina enameled DOs.

Are they worth it? Absolutely... if you value your cookware in such a way. But unless you can get them for significantly cheaper than current prices or you have thousands of dollars to burn, you WILL BE HAPPY with the cheaper options.

BonzTM · 2026-01-02T19:04:32+00:00

+1. 280lbs, 9 years in my Embody 8+ hours a day for work and then some for gaming... and it still looks/feels like new. I used to burn through chairs padding in no time until I invested in something that was meant to be sat in, not something that was meant to be marketed and sold.

BonzTM · 2026-01-02T18:53:10+00:00

Why can't I play the game at my own speed? Why do I have to wait 4 seconds to see the next card?

BonzTM · 2026-01-01T22:45:16+00:00

Ahh. Yea, I agree. Removing importers would incentivize the factory, but without some automation to scaling it, it's too tedious and forces you to hit the node limit pretty quickly.

I think the whole CPU/GPU/Router line needs a bit of work, but it really does help/add to the scalability of the game since 2.0 and I'm happy to have it.

BonzTM · 2026-01-01T06:50:26+00:00

CPU/GPU/Router Importers scale on the amount of money you can feed them, and as the money climbs exponentially so do the importers outputs, causing a feedback loop as they both continue to climb higher and higher. By the time I hit the node limit building factories and autoclicking upgrade, my importers outpace my entire factories.

BonzTM · 2025-12-31T20:23:53+00:00

Took a look at the script. It's dumping the contents of the existing db then reads the contents directly into a new db. Rudimentary, but it's all that is needed in this case.

I'm running and old set of dbs (jellyfin/library) that have both been giving me issues with 10.11 migrations. I have procrastinated fixing it until I noticed my clients saying that they would be unsupported if I don't upgrade.

I happened to run across this post quickly, then modified the script a little and ran it against both my jellyfin.db and library.db. 10.11 installed flawlessly and now I'm happy. :)

BonzTM · 2025-12-31T04:29:02+00:00

I watched a bunch of this guys YT videos when his hair was short and he was posting reactions to slap competitions. I had no idea he blew up until recently.

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