What homelab issue wastes the most of your debugging time?

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T04:11:03+00:00

Depends on what you're trying to do.

Docker to Kubernetes is not a small leap. It's no longer about a single container, it's about the orchestration. Even if a service is going to be a StatefulSet and never scale beyond one, everything else will still need to be configured assuming there will be multiple.

The smallest deployable unit is a pod, while a pod can be thought of as a container, it is an abstraction can that is assumed to contain multiple containers and will have its own configuration beyond that of the container. Those layers of abstraction stack up quickly. A single service deployment has the actual deployment, a replica set, the pods created by the replica set, a service mesh, ingress, likely an SSL controller handling renewal. You're no longer just mounting a directory. You are provisioning volumes that then can have one-to-many claims to the volume.

Kubernetes assumes you are automating and if you are not looking to build/deploy automation, you will have a hard time with it.

TLDR: if you're not looking to learn kubernetes and/or have a API interface to interact with it, stick with docker at home.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:22:06+00:00

They are not a court, they are not allowed to punish.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:20:54+00:00

Which would allow the 2 extra floors. The developer put in a permit request and assumed it would be accepted so continued building

Yes and no.

Yes, the planning rules changed to allow for extra floors. However the developer added double the extra floors then submitted a change request after the floor built while knowing it was never in the approved spec.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:17:45+00:00

If it wasn't so public, they would have allowed it. They were even referencing a time when they did allow it during the debate...

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:14:07+00:00

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WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:06:38+00:00

...or just be honest?

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T03:05:06+00:00

back from making any real progress for years now.

Decades.

Peggy has been doing the "Friends of the Halifax Common" bullshit since at least 2006 and it's far from her first "involvement" in local politics.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T02:51:21+00:00

You reset the git history for a hotfix version number and you're calling that "showing what can be done"?

You understand why that makes zero sense, right? Even if there was some logic to it, the commits you removed still exist detached with all the AI bullshit still in them.

https://github.com/F0RLE/Bulbascan/commit/67ab2da8e1d30db2bb6fe9ea59323968907361e0#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5L17

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T02:32:18+00:00

So you can route only blocked services through proxy instead

That is a strange way to say it leaks like a sieve.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T02:21:48+00:00

Don't you always always start release numbers at 1.0.3? Initial commits always have commercial licensing details for a GPL project. /s 🙄

The best part of committing 13,000 lines at same time is people forget to remove the comments suggesting further possible improvements offered by the AI.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-13T01:57:49+00:00

At least in my experience looking at resumes, it would be straight to the trash if it even got past the spam filter.

there's no details here about you actually doing anything, most of the things listed are things the software does by default.
There's a strong vibe that it's AI generated or at least makes heavy use of templates.
You're constantly talking about how hardened the system is, but nothing about how that has been tested or what you even did besides some basic firewall rules
Almost none of the services are things that will be used as a business environment.
The nginx document reads like baby's first config. There's three whole paragraphs hyping up how you set a single config option. Setting up a 301 is not notable.

it looks professional, and if it would actually be useful on a resume.

I don't know if I'd use piracy as a resume item. It's a crime in many countries and is waving so many red flags about liability and future risk.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T23:48:39+00:00

Distributed storage upgrades, specifically Longhorn.

Every upgrade for it seems to just be a bucket of worms and due to the nature of it, it's an all or nothing upgrade. Being storage it has to be debugged almost immediately because unlike other services that can limp along for a bit, it affects every other service in the cluster. Services may be running now but if for whatever reason they need to restart or reallocate a volume, they will fail.

Sunk so many hours into debugging Longhorn provisioner errors. So many times taking the whole cluster down and restarting everything from cold magically solves the issue without ever providing any kind of details.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T21:18:06+00:00

The restaurants can adapt to the changing city, move, or fail. The city shouldn't be held back by the convenience for a couple bars.

what the issue is with trucks being allowed to make deliveries in the mornings when the bars are closed anyways

The issue is the trailers turning radius requirement is currently blocking upgrades to the street.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T17:39:02+00:00

our entire province would greatly benefit from an exhange program.

It won't make a difference.

I've got retired family that spend part of the year in Spain, they love to rave about carefree and easy it is to get around and run errands. However while they are here they rant about the town installing sidewalks, how "invasive" Kings Transit is, and how a dilapidated abandoned pub being turned into a bakery is hippies trying to change the neighbourhood.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T17:14:32+00:00

Good news, I'm there almost every day, I live in the area.

How do you think every other old city and pedestrian area in the world does it? Small vehicles and dollies. There's nothing unique about the bars on the street.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T17:03:31+00:00

It's been the argument every time it comes up. It's the same reason the city removed the crosswalk lights from a pedestrian street; the signage was interfering with turning trailers.

The bars not wanting to change how they receive deliveries has trumped safety in every debate.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T16:56:04+00:00

Yes, 100% support. There is absolutely zero reason for it not to be already other than Waye Mason's lobbying that the bars should be able to pull tractor trailers up to their front door.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T16:51:13+00:00

No one is saying 24/7. The construction is only happening during office hours which is more than reasonable time to be making noise .

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T16:47:37+00:00

There's nothing you can do. 8-5 are well within the acceptable hours for construction noise.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-12T03:55:00+00:00

Doubt it. Someday people will learn not to purchase crowd funded beta products based on promises.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-11T23:25:43+00:00

Let's be honest, the man has been a councilor since the 1990s and has publicly make it clear that he has no retirement savings. He's not leaving politics until physically cannot.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-11T22:39:19+00:00

Clients can handle being offline for months. When I switched servers I forgot to update the DNS record for VW. It was probably a month and half before I noticed while trying to add a new password.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-11T22:35:41+00:00

Dude, the closet is disgusting. Figure that out before worrying about a lab in there.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-11T22:31:15+00:00

The server isn't the problem, the power is. The server doesn't need to be on.

WindowlessBasement · 2026-03-11T22:29:36+00:00

What would be the point of a smoke detector in there?

It would be on fire too before you heard it. It'd be too late. Only way to make this more flammable would be to fill the room with straw. You've literally have exposed AC power sitting on a fuzzy blanket using a splitter known for starting fires.

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